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May  2,  1913 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co  .  , 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

My  dear  Mr.  Evans: 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to 
recommend  your  firm  of  Victor  J. 
Evans  &  Company,  patent  attorneys, 
to  my  friends  who  may  have  business 
before  the  Patent  Office  here  at 
Washington  and  I  feel  that  they 
will  receive  at  your  hands  prompt, 
honest  and  efficient  services. 

Wishing  you  success  you  deserve, 
I  am, 

Your    friend, 


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A    LETTER    FROM    MR.    UNDERWOOD 

COMMITTEE    ON    WAYS   AND    MEANS 

HOUSE   OF    REPRESENTATIVES 

WASHINGTON.    D.    C. 

November   29,    1913 

Mr.   Victor   J.    Evans, 

Victor    J.    Evans  &   Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,    D.    C. 

My   Dear   Sir: 

It  is  with  great  pleasure  I 
recommend  your  firm  of  Victor  J. 
Evans  &  Company,  patent  attorneys, 
to  inventors  who  desire  the  serv- 
ices of  a  reliable  and  competent 
firm  to  represent  them  before  the 
Patent  Office.   I  feel  that  your 
firm  is  qualified  to  handle  effec- 
tively all  classes  of  inventions, 
and  am  sure  that  business 
entrusted  to  you  will  receive 
prompt,  faithful  and  efficient 
attention. 

With  kindest  regards,  I  am 

Very  truly  yours , 


OSCAR  -W-  UNDERWOOD 

IHjtf'  IF  HOUSE  LEADER. 


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Washington,  D.  C., 

May  12,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

I  understand  that  your  firm  is  enterprising  and 
secures  the  best  results  for  its  clients.     I  wish 
you  every  success  in  your  business. 
Yours  very  truly, 
(Signed)     W.  P.  JACKSON, 

Senator  from  Maryland. 


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COMMITTEE   ON    PACIFIC    RAILROADS 

May  12,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Dear  Sirs: 

From  reports  brought  to  me  I  have  every  rea- 
son to  believe  your  firm  is  reliable  and  that  mat- 
ters entrusted  to  your  care  will  receive  the  best 
attention  through  the  Patent  Office. 

Very  truly  yours, 
(Signed)     FRANK  B.  BRANDEGEE, 

Senator  from  Connecticut. 


The   American    inventors    have   made    the  United   State*    the 

greatest  nation  in  the  world  by  reason  of  the 

marvelous    patents  produced 


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COMMITTEE   ON   WOMAN    SUFFRAGE 

May  13,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

From  sources  which  I  believe  to  be  reliable, 
I  believe  your  firm  to  be  capable  and  competent 
in  all  matters  entrusted  to  them.  I  will  be  glad 
to  recommend  you. 

Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)     C.  S.  THOMAS, 

Senator  from  Colorado. 

Ituttcit  States  ^miatr 

COMMITTEE   ON 
EXPENDITURES   IN   THE   INTERIOR    DEPARTMENT 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  12,  1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

From  every  source  I  learn  that  your  firm  at- 
tends to  matters  submitted  to  it  promptly  and  se- 
cures the  best  results  for  its  clients.  It  will  give 
me  pleasure  to  recommend  your  firm  to  friends 
of  mine  and  I  wish  you  every  success  for  the 
future.  Yours  truly, 

(Signed)     REED  SMOOT, 

Senator  from  Utah. 


Advancing  money  to  inventors  for  an  interest  in  a  good 
patent    is  a  good  investment 


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COMMITTEE   ON    BANKING   AND    CURRENCY 

May  12,  1913. 
Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

C/o  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 
Washington,  D.  C. 

My  Dear  Sir: 

I  am  very  glad  to  join  in  the  recommendation 
given  you  by  Mr.  Champ  Clark  in  the  matter  of 
your  equipment  to  render  prompt  and  efficient 
service  in  the  Patent  Office  at  Washington. 
Yours  very  respectfully, 

(Signed)     ROBT.  L.  OWEN, 

Senator  from  Oklahoma. 


COMMITTEE  ON   PACIFIC   RAILROADS 

May  12,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Dear  Sirs: 

From  reports  brought  to  me  I  have  every  rea- 
son to  believe  your  firm  is  reliable  and  that  mat- 
ters entrusted  to  your  care  will  receive  the  best 
attention  through  the  Patent  Office. 
Very  truly  yours, 

(Signed)     W.  O.  BRADLEY, 

Senator  from  Kentucky. 


Our  relations  with  manufacturers  enable  us  to  present 
inventions  which  are  for  sale 


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COMMITTEE   ON    ENGROSSED    BILLS 

Washington,  D.  C., 

April  23,  1913. 

Messrs.  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen  : 

I  have  been  familiar  with  the  good  standing 
of  your  firm  for  many  years  and  will  take  pleasure 
in  commending  it  to  any  of  my  constituents  who 
may  call  upon  me  in  reference  to  matters  pertain- 
ing to  patents. 
AP.  Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)     F.  E.  WARREN, 

Senator  from  Wyoming. 


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COMMITTEE   ON    PUBLIC    BUILDINGS   AND   GROUNDS 

April  23,  1913. 

Messrs.  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Washington,  D.  C. 
My  Dear  Sirs: 

I  desire  to  state  that  I  can  commend  your  firm 
as  efficient  and  capable  patent  attorneys,  and 
that  you  have  given  satisfactory  service  to  your 
patrons. 

I  feel  sure  that  any  business  entrusted  to  you 
will  be  given  prompt  attention. 
I  am,  Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)     CLAUDE  A.  SWANSON, 

Senator  from  Virginia. 


Invention*  of  our  clients,  when  protected,  are  brought  to  the 
direct  attention  of  tho»c  manufacturers  and  men  of  means 
who  in  our  opinion  are  most  likely  to  become  interested 


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EXPENDITURES    IN    THE    DEPARTMENTS    OF    COMMERCE 
AND    LABOR 

May  2,  1913. 

Messrs.  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen  : 

From  information  furnished  me,  I  take  pleasure 
in  recommending  your  firm  as  competent  and  re- 
liable patent  attorneys,  and  am  satisfied  you 
would  give  prompt  and  careful  attention  to  any 
business  of  this  character  entrusted  to  you. 

Yours  respectfully, 
(Signed)     WM.  H.  THOMPSON, 

Senator  from  Kansas. 


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COMMITTEE   ON 
EXPENDITURES   IN   THE   TREASURY    DEPARTMENT 

May  2,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen  : 

Your  firm  has  been  highly  commended  to  me 
as  in  every  respect  trustworthy,  and  prompt  in 
attending  to  business  entrusted  to  you. 

Very  truly  yours, 
(Signed     JOS.  T.  ROBINSON, 

Senator  from  Arkansas. 


The  greatest  remuneration  may  be  derived  from  the 

least  effort  and  that  there  shall  be 

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May  12,  1913. 

Messrs.  Victor  J.  Evans  Company, 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen  : 

I  understand  your  firm  does  a  large  business, 
and  is  entirely  reliable. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

(Signed)     HOKE  SMITH, 

Senator  from  Georgia. 


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COMMITTEE   ON    CANADIAN    RELATIONS 

May  13,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Dear  Sirs : 

From  information  coming  to  me  from  sources 
which  I  believe  to  be  creditable,  in  my  opinion 
your  firm  is  reliable  and  the  members  of  it  en- 
tirely competent  to  take  care  of  ail  business  in 
your  line  entrusted  to  them. 
Respectfully, 
(Signed)     JNO.  K.  SHIELDS, 

Senator  from  Tennessee. 


Compare  the  financial  returns  derived  by  our  clients 
with  others 


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EXPENDITURES   IN   THE   TREASURY   DEPARTMENT 

May  12,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

I  understand  that  your  firm  does  a  large  busi- 
ness and  that  you  have  given  eminent  satisfac- 
tion to  your  clients. 

Very  respectfully  yours, 

TEBf.  (Signed)     T.  E.  BURTON, 

Senator  from  Ohio. 


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COMMITTEE   ON    ENROLLED    BILLS 

May  6,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Dear  Sirs: 

From  recent  reports  made  to  me  as  to  the 
standing  and  character  of  your  firm,  I  am  satis- 
fied as  to  your  honesty,  ability  and  trustworthi- 
ness as  patent  attorneys. 

Sincerely  yours, 

(Signed)     HENRY  F.  HOLLIS, 
L  H  Senator,  New  Hampshire. 


Some  inventor*  receive  large  sums  for  apparently  insignificant 

patents  while  others  who  have  more  meritorious 

patents  allow  them  to  lie  dormant 

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VICTOR     J.      EVANS      $1,500      PRIZE      CONTEST 
FOR   PREVENTION    OF    INDUSTRIAL    ACCIDENTS 

MCE-PRESIDENT  MARSHALL,  Speaker  Clark. 
Secretary  Houston,  Secretary  Wilson,  Robert 
McKay,  editor  "Railroad  Man's  Magazine,"  H.  W. 
Young,  editor  "Popular  Electricity,"  and  Samuel 
Gompers,  of  the  Federation  of  Labor,  have  accepted 
membership  in  a  committee  to  select  judges  who  will 
award  the  prizes  for  the  best  devices  to  prevent  in- 
dustrial accidents. 

All  communications  in  any  way  relating  to  the  con- 
test should  be  addressed  to  Victor  J.  Evans  Prize  Con- 
test, 726  Ninth  St.  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


"FOR  THE  GREATEST  CAPITAL  CITY  ON    EARTH 

(L'uur  UMI rrmiMit  Assuriutitm 

WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 

THE    CIVIC    BETTERMENT    ASSOCIATION,     of 

Washington,  D.  C.,  at  a  meeting  of  its  Board  of  Direc- 
tors,  held  on  the   evening  of  March   31,    1914, 

Resolved,  That  we  heartily  commend  the  splendid 
humanitarian  efforts  of  our  fellow  townsman  and  phi- 
lanthropist, Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  in  seeking  to  prevent 
the  loss  of  human  life  by  his  generous  offer  of  prizes 
aggregating  fifteen  hundred  ($1,500)  dollars  for  the 
best  devices  designed  to  prevent  accidents  resulting  in 
the  loss  of  life  in  the  contraction  of  vocational  diseases. 
Be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  our  Secretary  be  directed  to  present 
a  copy  of  these  Resolutions  to  Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans  and 
members  of  the  Commission  who  will  select  the  judges 
in  the  contest  to  pass  on  the  awards:  Hon.  Thomas  R. 
Marshall,  Hon.  Champ  Clark,  Hon.  D.  F.  Houston,  Hon. 
W.  B.  Wilson,  Mr.  Samuel  Gompers.  Mr.  Robert  Mackay, 
and  Mr.  II.  W.  Young. 

Washington,  D.  C., 
March  31,   1914. 

Attest: 

MAYO  C.   MITCHELL, 

Secretai  > . 


Fortunes   in    Little    Things 


BY  RENE  BACHE 


ir-ipiHE  glass  thumb  tack,  which  is  yielding 
to  its  originator  a  small  fortune  annu- 
ally, is  the  latest  of  a  long  series  of  in- 
ventions, small  and  trifling,  that  have 
been  enormously  profitable  to  those  who  were 
fortunate  in  inventing  them. 

To  become  rich,  think  of  some  little  thing  that 
the  public  wants,  and  supply  it.  One  of  the  most 
remunerative  contrivances  ever  invented  sold  for 
only  a  cent.  It  was  the  famous  toy  called  the 
"return  ball,"  which,  with  the  help  of  a  rubber 
string  fastened  to  a  ring  in  the  finger,  flew  back 
to  the  hand  that  threw  it.  Many  millions  of  the 
small  wooden  spheres,  painted  red,  the  rubber 
and  an  attached  finger  ring  being  thrown  in  for 
the  penny  were  sold,  and  the  inventor's  profit 
is  said  to  have  amounted  to  fifty  thousand  dollars 
a  year. 

The  collar  button  that  turns  down  at  the  back, 
preventing  the  "hiking  up"  that  is  so  disagree- 
able, was  a  great  boon  to  mankind.  It  was  in- 
vented only  about  twenty-five  years  ago,  and  is 
said  to  have  earned  royalties  of  twenty  thousand 
dollars  per  annum  for  a  long  period.  Equally 
profitable,  it  is  understood,  was  -the  ball  and 
socket  clasp  now  so  commonly  used  for  gloves 
and  pocket  books.  At  the  Patent  Office,  by  the 
way,  it  is  stated  that  in  order  to  be  popular,  a 
clasp  must  have  an  audible  click  in  closing.  How- 


There  are  many  real  inventions  which  are  strokes  of 
creative  genius  not  yet  patented 


THOMAS    A.     EDISON,     THE    GREATEST     INVENTOR. 

From  a  copyrighted  photograph  by  Underwood  &  Under- 
wood, New   York. 

ever  meritorious  in  other  respects,  it  will  fail  to 
please  if  it  lacks  this  essential. 

METAL  SUBSTITUTED  FOR  CORK 

The  brass  paper  fastener,  now  so  familiar,  is 
one  of  the  most  famous  of  small  inventions,  hav- 


A  patent  with  merit  is  an  easy  road  to  wealth 

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ing  earned  a  large  fortune  for  a  Government 
clerk  at  Washington,  G.  W.  McGill,  who  pat- 
ented it  in  1867.  Nevertheless,  it  was  in  reality 
an  old  idea,  a  device  of  bronze,  exactly  similar, 
having  been  used  two  thousand  years  ago  by  the 
Romans  and  for  other  purposes.  It  was  the  same 
way  with  the  safety  pin,  which  is  an  ancient  con- 
trivance. 

One  of  the  most  profitable  of  small  inventions 
was  the  metal  cap  now  used  so  extensively  for 
beer  bottles,  as  a  substitute  for  a  cork.  And  al- 
most equally  well  known  is  the  glass  lemon 
squeezer,  which  has  the  advantage  of  being  clean 
and  acid  proof.  Five  thousand  dollars  is  said  to 
have  been  paid  for  the  squeezer  to  its  inventor, 
but  that  is  only  a  trifling  fraction  of  the  money 
derived  from  it.  The  ice  shaver,  so  useful  for 
compounding  drinks,  is  yet  another  example  in 
the  same  line. 

The  person  who  thought  of  making  a  seamless 
shield  for  women's  dresses,  with  a  sheet  of  rub- 
ber between  two  layers  of  cloth,  quickly  found 
himself  in  possession  of  a  fortune.  His  name 
was  Canfield. 

It  is  men  who  produce  most  of  the  new  contri- 
vances for  women's  comfort — a  rule  to  which  no 
exception  is  found  in  the  substitute  for  whale- 
bone known  as  "featherbone."  •  But  how  did  the 
idea  first  suggest  itself  that  the  quills  of  chickens, 
ducks,  and  geese,  woven  together  in  strips,  might 
take  the  place  of  whalebone  in  women's  gowns? 
It  was  certainly  a  fortunate  discovery,  inasmuch 
as  chickens  are  always  plentiful,  whereas  whales 
are  becoming  steadily  scarcer. 


The  first  step  toward  success  is  a  good  invention 


E.     W.     DENNISON,     WHO,    AS    INVENTOR    OF    THE    SHIPPING    TAG, 
MADE     MILLIONS    OUT    OF    "LITTLE    THINGS*' 


Shoe  buttons,  in  former  days,  were  constantly 
coming  off.  A  man  named  Heaton,  residing  in 
Providence,  noticed  the  fact  and  devised  the 
metal  button  fastener,  which  is  now  universally 
used.  It  brought  him  a  fortune. 

Dennison  gained  a  big  fortune  from  his  idea 
for  a  shipping  tag,  yet  how  simple,  and  even 


The  United  States  Patent  Office  has  issued  over 
one  million  patents 


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Unite?*  States 
Washington,  D.  C.,  February  3,  1914. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Dear  Sirs: 

From  information  that  I  have,  coming  from 
sources  entirely  reliable  I  am  of  the  opinion  that 
the  firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  Patent  Attor- 
neys, is  reliable  and  trustworthy.  They  have  a 
record  of  prompt  attention  to  business  and  fair 
dealing  with  their  clients. 

Very  truly  yours, 

B/T  JAMES  H.  BRADY, 

Senator  from  Idaho. 


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Washington,  D.  C.,  February  3,  1914. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Dear  Sirs: 

From  information  in  my  possession,  I  am  con- 
vinced of  your  reliability  as  Patent  Attorneys, 
and  am  satisfied  that  you  would  promptly  and 
efficiently  attend  to  any  matters  entrusted  to 
you  by  your  clients. 

Very  respectfully, 

ALLEN  B.  FALL, 
F/A  Senator  from  New  Mexico. 


Who  can  say  what  wonderful  inventions  we  are  on  the 
eve  of  making?  "Darius  Green  and  his  flying  machine" 
was  the  joke  of  our  childhood.  Flying  is  no  joke  now 


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obvious,  it  was!  All  tags  previously  known  tore 
out  at  the  tie  hole.  Why  not  put  a  cardboard  re- 
inforcement around  the  hole?  Presto!  The 
problem  was  solved,  and  today  such  tags  are  in 
i.niversal  use. 

The  every-day  can  opener  is  a  little  invention 
that  was  profitable.  To  use  it  involves  some  la- 
bor, however,  and  these  are  days  when  people  do 
not  like  to  take  much  trouble  about  anything. 
So,  not  long  ago,  an  enterprising  person  devised 
a  can  with  a  rim  just  below  the  top,  the  metal 
being  so  bent  that  a  stroke  with  a  hammer  would 
break  the  top  off.  Cans  made  in  this  way  cost 
only  a  cent  a  thousand  more  than  ordinary  cans, 
and  ten  million  of  them  were  at  once  ordered  by 
a  Chicago  packer.  Within  six  months  the  inven- 
tor found  himself  the  possessor  of  a  fortune. 

Who  was  the  woman  that  first  thought  of 
bending  a  hairpin  out  of  shape  in  order  to  make 
it  hold  better?  The  idea  must  surely  date  a  long 
way  back — though  the  hairpin  itself  is  not  so 
very  ancient.  In  earlier  times  women  used  hair- 
pins that  resembled  modern  hatpins,  and  it  is  a 
mystery  how  they  kept  their  tresses  in  place.  But 
one  day,  not  long  ago,  a  man  saw  his  wife  bend  a 
hairpin  to  make  it  crooked,  and  an  idea  struck 
him  which  took  the  shape  of  the  crinkly  hairpin. 

A  hook-and-eye,  with  a  much-advertised 
"hump,"  has  earned  a  great  fortune  for  its  own- 
ers— though,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  hump  was 
not  a  new  idea,  and  the  feature  on  the  strength 
of  which  the  contrivance  was  patented  had  re- 
lation to  something  else. 


Write  u«  your  needs  in  any  line  of  manufacture 

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of  iRrprramtuiuifs,  51. 


WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May    18,    1913. 
Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.    Evans   &   Co., 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,    D.    C. 

Dear    Mr.    Evans: 

It  is  with  pleasure  that  I  recommend  your  firm 
of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company,  patent  attorneys, 
to  my  constituents  and  my  friends  who  may  have 
business  for  the  Patent  Office  at  Washington,  as 
I  am  sure  your  firm  vvjif  BJV£,  them  prompt  aj 
efficient  services. 

Very  tr 


Representative  from   Louisiana. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  and  Senator-Elect  Broussard 


LORD     KELVIN     (SIR    WILLIAM     THOMSON),    THE     FAMOUS    ENGLISH 

PHYSICIST     WHO     WAS    EQUALLY     SUCCESSFUL    AS    A     SCIENTIST, 

AN     INVENTOR,     A     TEACHER,     AND     A     BUSINESS     MAN 

From  a  photograph  by  Lafayette,  London 


MONEY  IN  SMOKE  CATCHERS 

The  inverted  glass  bell  to  protect  ceilings  from 
the  smoke  of  gaslights  made  a  large  fortune  for 
its  inventor ;  and  the  same  may  be  said  of  the  fa- 
miliar spring  fingers  of  brass  for  holding  lamp 
chimneys.  It  is  said  that  the  patentee  in  the  lat- 


The  forces  of  nature  must  be  yet  more  effectively 
harnessed  to    "te  wheels  of  commerce 


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$     MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 


of  £xrpr  riiriiiuiiucs,  it. 


Washington,  D.  C., 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

I  cheerfully  commend  to  anyone  needing  the 
services  of  a  patent  attorney,  your  well-known 
firm.  The  standing  of  your  firm  is  excellent. 

(Signed)     A.  S.  KREIDER,  M.  C., 

1 8th  Dist.  Pennsylvania. 


nf 

COMMITTEE    ON    MILITARY    AFFAIRS 

Washington,  D.  C., 

April  30,  1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Your  firm  has  been  represented  to  me  in  a  most 
favorable  manner  and  I  take  great  pleasure  in 
recommending  it  to  all  persons  having  business 
with  the  Patent  Office. 

Yours  truly, 

(Signed)     THOMAS  G.  PATTEN, 

M.  C.,  i8th  Dist.,  New  York. 


Our  clients  are  our  best  advertisers 


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$     MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 


ter  case  received  fifty  thousand  dollars  a  year  for 
his  idea. 

A  thumb  latch  brought  wealth  to  two  New 
Haven  men,  Philos  Eli  and  John  A.  Blake.  The 
automatic  ink  stand,  which  offers  to  the  pen  user 
a  never-varying  supply  of  ink,  was  worth  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars  to  its  originator. 

Housewives  used  to  have  a  lot  of  trouble  in 
cleaning  knives,  mainly  because  it  was  difficult  to 
scrape  the  powder  from  the  brick  used  for  the 
purpose.  But  it  occurred  to  somebody  that  the 
brick  material  might  just  as  well  be  sold  in  the 
form  of  powder,  put  up  in  neat  packages,  and  the 
idea  made  him  independent  for  life. 

One  has  only  to  hit  one  of  these  little  ideas  to 
be  freed  from  the  necessity  of  working  for  a  liv- 
ing any  longer — a  fact  which  Hymen  L.  Lipman, 
of  Philadelphia,  ascertained  to  his  own  satisfac- 
tion, when,  in  1858,  he  patented  the  India  rubber 
pencil  top.  This  was  nothing  more  than  a  bit  of 
rubber  inserted  into  the  butt  end  of  the  pencil, 
but  it  brought  one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

The  barb  wire  idea  for  fences  was  another 
profitable  invention;  Joseph  F.  Glidden,  who  in- 
vented the  barbed  wire  fence,  made  a  million  in 
royalties  before  his  patent  expired;  and  still  an- 
other was  the  metal  plate  for  protecting  the  sole 
or  heel  of  a  shoe.  Last  year  one  hundred  and 
fifty  million  of  these  plates  were  manufactured. 

Somebody  who  had  been  annoyed  by  the  diffi- 
culty of  picking  up  coins  from  shop  counters  de- 
vised the  rubber  mat  with  rubber  bristles,  now 
so  well  known.  It  brought  in  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars in  cash,  and  was  worth  the  money. 


You  may  not  know  yourself  what  wonder  it  will  lead  to 

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COMMITTEE   ON  THE  JUDICIARY 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May   9,    1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans,  Esq., 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,   D.   C. 

My    dear    Sir: 

I  heartily  concur  in  the  endorsement  of  your 
firm  by  my  colleagues,  and  certainly  believe  that 
any  business  submitted  to  your  care  would  receive 
honest  and  intelligent  attention. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.  C.,  2d  District,  Maine. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  McGillicuddy 


VICTOR       J.      EVANS      &      CO. 


SAMUEL     F.     B.     MORSE,     THE    INVENTOR    OF     THE    TELEGRAPH. 
WHOSE    WIRES    NOW    CIRCLE    THE    GLOBE 


The  simpler  the  idea,  the  more  money  it  seems 
to  be  worth.  What,  for  example,  could  be  more 
simple  than  a  wooden  shoe  peg?  Yet  nobody 
thought  of  such  a  thing  until  it  occurred  to  the 
mind  of  a  Boston  man,  B.  F.  Sturtevant.  It 
brought  him  millions,  but  he  went  crazy  and  his 


We  relieve  rejected  cases  of  their  defects  and  insure 
valuable  patents 


PATENT      ATTORNEYS 

Hmtsr  of  SRpprFBFntattu^fi,  U.  &. 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 

To  Whom  It  May  Concern : 

From  information  received  by  me  and  from 
letters  written  by  other  members  of  Congress,  I 
am  glad  to  assert  that  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Com- 
pany, Patent  Attorneys,  bear  a  very  high  reputa- 
tion. Respectfully, 

(Signed)     S.  B.  AVIS,  M.  C., 
SBA-J  3d  Dist.,  West  Virginia. 


,  II.  g>. 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 

To  Whom  It  May  Concern: 

From  information  received  and  from  personal 
investigation,  I  take  pleasure  in  stating  that  I 
believe  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  Patent  Attorneys, 
are  competent  and  reliable,  and  have  a  high  repu- 
tation. 

Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)     JAMES  S.  DAVENPORT, 
M.  C.,  3d  Okla.  Dist 


If  an  inventor  does  not  patent  his  invention  he  does  not  get  paid 

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good  luck  never  brought  him  any  satisfaction. 
The  copper  toe  for  children's  shoes  was  the  in- 
vention of  a  Maine  farmer.  His  boys  kicked  out 
their  boots,  and  he  found  that,  by  applying  metal 
strips  to  the  toes,  he  could  make  them  last  three 
times  as  long.  The  patent  covers  shoe  tips  of  sil- 
ver and  other  metals,  but  copper  is  preferred. 

The  famous  "Fifteen"  Puzzle  was  never  pat- 
ented, though  several  persons  claimed  to  have 
originated  it,  and  a  great  deal  of  money  was  made 
by  selling  it.  "Pigs-in-clover"  was  the  idea  of 
Crandall,  the  man  who  invented  dove-tailing 
building  blocks  for  children,  but  he  failed  to  se- 
cure exclusive  rights  in  its  manufacture,  and  thus 
lost  a  fortune  that  might  have  been  his. 

J.  E.  Crandall  made  a  great  deal  of  money  out 
of  patents  for  toys,  inventing  more  than  one  hun- 
dred different  things,  and  taking  out  over  one 
hundred  and  forty  patents. 

In  the  line  of  dolls  there  have  been  not  a  few 
remunerative  patents,  one  of  them  being  for  a 
doll's  eye.  It  used  to  be  difficult  to  fix  the  eyes  in 
the  heads  of  dolls  so  that  they  would  look  straight 
in  front  of  them,  and,  of  course,  nobody  wanted 
to  buy  a  cross-eyed  doll.  But  the  invention  in 
question  made  it  possible  to  adjust  the  ocular  ap- 
paratus of  any  doll  off-hand  in  a  proper  manner. 

MADE  WEALTHY  BY  TOYS 

Some  of  the  most  profitable  small  inventions 
have  been  toys.  A  flying  top  of  tin,  with  wings, 
which  flew  up  into  the  air,  earned  a  good  sized 
fortune.  The  "chameleon  top,"  which  showed 


There  is  a  revolution  in  business  and  manufacture 

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WASHINGTON.   D.  C. 

May    6,    1913. 
Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  Pres., 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,   D.   C. 
My  dear  Sir: 

Your  firm  has  been  highly  recommended  to  me 
by  men  in  whom  I  have  the  greatest  confidence, 
that  I  take  pleasure  in  concurring  in  the  endorse- 
ments given  you  by  them,  and  my  colleagues  in 
Congress,  and  I  want  to  assure  you  that  I  feel  sat- 
isfied that  any  business  placed  in  your  hands  will 
be  well  and  properly  looked  after  before  the  Pat- 
ent Office  here  in  Washington,  and  will  receive 
prompt  and  efficient  attention. 

Very  respectfully, 


M.    C.,    Sixth    Missouri   District. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Dickinson 


VICTOR      J.      EVANS      &      CO 


CYRUS    HALL    M'CORMICK,    THE    INVENTOR   OF    THE    REAPER, 
WHICH    REVOLUTIONIZED    FARMING 


wonderful  changes  of  color  by  the  help  of  paper 
disks  of  various  hues  (incidentally  giving  useful 
instruction  in  optics),  was  equally  successful. 
And  another  popular  novelty,  "Pharaoh's  ser- 
pents"— an  odd  sort  of  firework — put  fifty  thous- 


Industries  are  founded  on  inventions 


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PATENT      ATTORNEYS 


of  5R£prFB*ntatiu£H,  II. 
Washington,  D.  C., 


To  Whom  It  May  Concern  : 

From  information  which  I  have  received  and 
letters  which  I  have  examined,  I  take  pleasure  in 
stating  that  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company,  Patent 
Attorneys,  bear  a  high  reputation. 

Yours  respectfully, 

(Signed)     F.  S.  DEITRICK,  M.  C., 

8th  Dist.,  Massachusetts. 


COMMITTEE   ON    RIVERS   AND   HARBORS 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 

To  be  successful  in  obtaining  a  patent,  one  of 
the  first  things  to  do  is  to  secure  the  services  of  a 
reliable  patent  attorney.  I  understand  that  the 
Victor  J.  Evans  Company,  Patent  Attorneys  at 
Washington,  are  reliable  and  very  successful  in 
their  business. 

(Signed)     THOS.  GALLAGHER,  M.  C., 

8th  District,  Illinois. 


An  attorney  of    professional    judgment  end    education  should 
be  selected  in  patent  matters 

_ 


W  ILBUR    WRIGHT,     INVENTOR    OF    THE    AEROPLANE. 

From    a    copyrighted   photograph    by    Underwood    &    Under- 
wood,   New    York. 


and  dollars  into  the  pocket  of  its  originator  a  few 
years  ago. 

Edison's  first  invention  was  a  small  affair, 
though  of  important  application,  relating  to  teleg- 
raphy. He  took  it  into  the  office  of  a  telegraph 
company  on  Broadway  and  offered  it  for  sale  al- 


The  greatest  remuneration  may  be  derived  from  the 

least  effort  and  that  there  shall  be 

the  least  waste 


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$     MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 

Vinmir  of  SUpr^Btftttattu^s,  U.  ^* 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Gentlemen : 

From  the  information  I  have  received  I  am  of 
the  opinion  that  you  are  worthy  and  efficient,  and 
shall  be  glad  to  recommend  your  firm  to  anyone 
who  may  need  the  services  of  a  patent  attorney. 

Yours  truly, 

(Signed)     OTIS  T.  WINGO,  M.  C., 

4th  Dist,  Arkansas. 


of 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 
To  Whom  It  May  Concern: 

The  firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  Patent  At- 
torneys, is  highly  endorsed  by  members  of  Con- 
gress who  personally  know  them,  and  I  am  sure 
are  entitled  to  consideration  as  efficient  and  re- 
liable. 

(Signed)     H.  M.  TOWNER,  M.  C., 

8th  Dist.,  Iowa. 


Necessity  is  the  mother  of  inventions 


$     MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 


most  tremblingly.  The  president  of  the  com- 
pany consented  to  examine  it,  and  when  the 
youthful  genius  came  back  by  appointment  a  lit- 
tle later  told  him  gruffly  that  the  company  would 
pay  thirty-six  thousand  dollars  for  the  contriv- 
ance and  not  a  cent  more.  Edison  had  never 
dreamed  of  getting  one-tenth  of  such  a  price; 
and,  as  he  himself  tells  the  story,  he  decided  that 
the  check  was  valueless  when  the  cashier  of  the 
bank  on  which  it  was  drawn  refused  to  cash  it 
unless  he  was  identified.  But  he  got  the  money 
at  last,  and  the  capital  thus  furnished  gave  him 
a  start  in  the  career  which  has  proved  so  bril- 
liant and  so  useful  to  humanity. 

PAPER  CLIPS 

The  paper  clip,  designed  to  hold  together  a  few 
sheets  of  paper  in  the  average  office,  presents 
more  variety  of  forms  than  any  other  individual 
thing  in  office  supplies.  Each  of  these  forms  of 
the  clip  represents  a  patented  idea  over  which 
some  one  has  spent  time  and  money.  At  the  best 
such  a  mechanism  accomplishes  only  the  purpose 
of  holding  the  few  sheets  of  paper  together,  gen- 
erally for  a  short  time,  while  it  is  passing  from 
one  department  of  a  house  to  another,  after 
which  the  piece  of  metal  is  taken  off  and  thrown 
aside.  One  dollar  perhaps  purchases  the  article 
by  thousands. 

And  yet  not  only  the  inventive  effort  and  the 
cost  of  patenting  the  metal  clasp  have  been  ex- 
pended, but  each  of  these  forms  represents  a  pat- 
ented and  manufactured  machine  for  the  making 
of  the  clip  itself,  and  which  may  have  to  turn  out 


Manufacturers  consult  us  when  they  •want  to  buy 
valuable  patents 


,  II. 


WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 


May   7,    1913. 
To   Whom   It   May    Concern: 

During  my  period  of  service  in  Washington,  I 
have  had  occasion  to  call  on  the  firm  of  Messrs. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  Patent  Attorneys,  of  Wash- 
ington, for  people  of  my  district  who  had  business 
relations  with  the  firm,  and  have  always  found 
them  courteous  and  obliging. 

From  what  I  see,  relative  to  their  business,  I  be- 
lieve   the    firm    fully    equipped    to    execute    business 
entrusted    to    them    in    a    capable    manner    and    as 
quickly  as  the  Government  laws  will  permit. 
Respectfully  submitted, 


COL/b 


M.   C.,   2d   Dist.,   Nebraska. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Lobeck 


NORTON    P.    OTIS,    THE    INVENTOR    OF    THE    ELEVATOR 

From  a  copyrighted  photograph  by  Underwood  6-   Underwood, 
New  York 


millions  of  the  little  bits  of  metal  before  the  ma- 
chine begins  to  earn  a  first  dividend  upon  the 
first  cost. 

M.  L.  Hancock,  the  inventor  of  the  disk  plow, 
made  millions  from  his  invention. 

Dr.  L.  F.  Adt,  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  is  the  inventor 
of  the  Shur-on  Eyeglass,  one  of  the  most  suc- 


Delays  are  dangerous  in  patent  matters 


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PATENT      ATTORNEYS 


Hio it sr  of  Hxrprriirutntiucs,  It.  -•*. 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  seventh, 
Nineteen  thirteen. 

To  Whom  It  May  Concern: 

This  is  to  recommend  Victor  J.  Evans  as  a 
competent  and  reliable  Patent  Attorney  to  all 
those  who  may  need  the  services  of  such. 

Very  respectfully, 

(Signed)     C.  D.  CARTER,  M.  C., 

4th  Dist.,  Oklahoma. 


of 

COMMITTEE   ON    MILITARY    AFFAIRS 

Washington,  D.  C.,  May  9,  1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen. 

From  information  obtained  by  me  from  reli- 
able sources,  I  take  pleasure  in  recommending 
your  firm  as  thoroughly  competent,  honest  and 
efficient  patent  attorneys. 

Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)     S.  H.  DENT,  Jr., 

M.  C.,  2d  District  of  Alabama. 


Make  your  inventions  in  an  art  with  which  you  are  acquainted. 

You  may  know  more  about  agriculture 

than  artillery 


GEORGE     WESTINGHOUSE,     WHOSE     AIR-BRAKE     MADE     HIM      A     MILLION- 
AIRE   WHEN    HE    WAS   THIRTY    YEARS   OLD 

From   a   copyrighted   photograph   by   Gessford,   New    York 


cessful  of  small  inventions.  Dr.  Adt  realized  that 
the  spring  which  had  hitherto  held  the  glass  was 
injurious  and  his  first  thought  was  to  overcome 
this,  but  the  perfected  spring  was  not  forthcom- 
ing until  after  long  and  painstaking  thought  and 
labor. 


If  an  immediate  market  doe*  not  already  exist  for  your  patent 

it  might  be  created  by  an  intelligent  demonstration 

of  the  improvement 

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nf  2RFpr*j8pntattu*fi,  -H.  9. 

Washington,  D.  C.,  May  7,  1913. 
Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  President, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Dear  Sir: 

Your  firm  has  been  very  highly  recommended, 
and  it  gives  me  pleasure  to  concur  in  the  endorse- 
ments given  you.  I  believe  matters  placed  in 
your  hands  before  the  Patent  Office  in  Washing- 
ton will  receive  efficient  attention. 
Very  truly  yours, 

(Signed)     J.  R.  WALKER,  M.  C., 
d.  Eleventh  District  of  Georgia. 

of 


Washington,  D.  C.,  May  5,  1913. 
Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  Pres., 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Washington,  D.  C. 
My  dear  Evans: 

It  affords  me  pleasure  to  be  able  at  this  time 
to  endorse  and  recommend  the  firm  of  Victor  J. 
Evans  &  Co.,  Patent  Attorneys,  to  my  constitu- 
ents who  may  have  business  before  the  Patent 
Office,  as  I  feel  that  any  business  entrusted  to 
said  firm  will  receive  prompt,  honest  and  efficient 
service. 

With  kindest  personal  regards,  I  remain, 
Your  friend, 

M.  E.  BURKE, 
M.  C.,  2d  Dist.  Wisconsin. 


Note  the  character  of  our  endorsements 
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$  PROFIT  $ 

IN    INVENTIONS 


WRITER  in  the  "New  York  Sun"  con- 
siders a  good  patent  as  valuable  as  a 
gold  mine,  in  its  way.  Patents  and  gold 
mines  resemble  each  other  very  much  in 
one  respect ;  there  are  no  infallible  signs  by  which 
one  may  recognize  the  bonanzas.  No  matter 
what  the  prospectus  may  say,  the  mine  must  be 
worked  before  its  value  may  be  known.  No  mat- 
ter what  the  theories  of  the  inventor  may  be,  the 
world's  market,  and  not  himself,  must  determine 
the  value  of  his  invention. 

Some  very  large  fortunes  have  been  made 
out  of  apparently  trivial  inventions.  There  is 
much  luck  in  the  first  place.  But  skill  in  hand- 
ling the  patent  counts  for  even  more  than  luck. 
The  little  rubber  stopper  with  the  wire  attached 
to  it,  which  is  used  now  on  every  beer  bottle,  is 
a  good  example  of  fine  business  management  in 
the  handling  of  an  apparently  trifling  invention. 
Often  the  inventor  fails  to  realize  the  value 
of  his  device.  Every  one  is  familiar  with  the 
hook  eyelet  now  commonly  used  on  boots  and 
shoes.  The  man  who  invented  it  could  dispose 
of  it  only  by  selling  the  complete  title  to  his  pat- 
ent to  a  shoe  company.  Even  the  shoe  company 
did  not  fully  appreciate  the  value  of  the  invention 
which  they  had  acquired ;  for  the  hook  and  eyelet 
was  regarded  as  an  eccentricity  and  would  re- 
quire expensive  machinery  in  its  manufacture. 
It  is  said  that  the  inventor  realized  $600  for  his 


All  preliminary  searches  and  official  examinations  are   made 

here  in  the  city   of  Washington  where  your 

attorney  should   be  located 

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COMMITTEE   ON   THE   JUDICIARY 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May  8,   1913. 
Victor   J.    Evans,    Esq., 

Victor  J.   Evans  &   Company, 

Washington,   D.   C. 
My  dear  Mr.  Evans: 

I  take  great  pleasure  in  issuing  this,  a  general 
commendation  of  the  firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  & 
Company,  Patent  Attorneys,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 

I  am  thoroughly  persuaded  that  Mr.  Evans  and 
his  associates  in  the  law  firm  -which  bears  his  name 
are  highly  competent  legally,  especially  well  quali- 
fied by  experience,  and  otherwise  in  position  to 
handle  with  efficiency  and  dispatch  the  business  en- 
trusted to  them. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.  C.,  2d  Louisiana  District. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Dupre 


VICTOR      J.      EVANS      &      CO. 


HUDSON     MAXIM,    THE    INVENTOR    OF    SMOKELESS    POWDER 


hook  and  eyelet ;  the  profits  to  the  manufacturers 
were  some  hundreds  of  thousands  per  year. 

Some  inventions,  says  the  writer,  drag  along 
for  years  without  getting  to  a  paying  stage,  and 
then  suddenly  make  fortunes  for  their  owners 
when  the  patent  is  almost  run  out.  The  type- 


Many  patents  of  distinct  merit  fail  to  return  a  profit  because 
their  owners  are  not  in  touch  with  men  in  lines  of  industry, 
who  would  gladly  either  buy  outright  or  work  it  on  royalty 

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PATENT       ATTORNEYS 


tttmtsr  0f  iRtfprtfBtfttiattutfB,  33.  4$. 

Washington,  D.  C.,  May  7,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

From  information  and  reports  made  to  me  as 
to  the  standing  of  your  firm  I  am  satisfied  that 
you  are  everything  represented  to  me  and  I  am 
positive  that  anything  intrusted  to  you  will  re- 
ceive prompt  attention. 

Yours  very  truly, 

(Signed)     J.  B.  ASWELL, 
M.  C.,  Louisiana,  8th  District. 


of  iRpprFBpntatiutfs,  IS.  &. 

Washington,  D.  C., 

June  2,  1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 
Victor  Building, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

Your  firm  has  been  very  well  spoken  of  to  me 
by  a  number  of  my  colleagues  on  the  House  floor 
and  I  take  great  pleasure  in  joining  with  them  in 
recommending  you  to  anyone  desirous  of  ob- 
taining the  services  of  a  thoroughly  efficient  and 
reliable  patent  attorney. 

Very  truly  yours, 
(Signed)     WARREN  GARD, 

3d  Dist.,  Ohio. 


All  matters  are  treated  in  the  strictest  confidence 

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writer  is  an  example  of  this  thing.  The  men  who 
believed  in  it  had  many  reasons  for  giving  up  all 
hope  of  its  ultimate  success.  The  man  who  had 
the  general  agency  for  the  whole  South  in  1877 
sold  only  four  machines  in  a  year,  three  of  them 
in  one  town,  Huntsville,  Ala.  It  was  not  until 
the  most  valuable  part  of  the  patents  had  expired 
that  any  one  made  any  money  on  the  typewriter. 
Bell  offered  to  sell  a  half  interest  in  his  telephone 
to  his  next-door  neighbor  for  $1,000,  and  the 
neighbor  laughed  at  the  absurdity  of  paying  such 
a  price  for  an  interest  in  a  freak  scientific  toy. 

Speaking  of  Bell's  telephone,  it  is  not  gen- 
erally known  that  he  came  very  near  losing  all 
his  English  patent  rights,  and  would  have  done 
so  but  for  a  remarkable  piece  of  luck.  At  the 
time  of  the  telephone's  invention  Lord  Kelvin 
was  in  this  country,  and  he  took  back  with  him 
to  Scotland  one  of  the  crude  instruments  which 
Bell  had  made,  intending  to  exhibit  it  to  his  col- 
lege classes  as  an  American  curiosity.  At  that 
time  the  transmitter  had  a  spiral  spring  on  the  up- 
per side,  and  while  the  model  was  knocking  about 
among  the  scientist's  baggage  in  its  journey 
across  the  ocean  this  spring  somehow  got  bent 
upward.  When  Lord  Kelvin  came  to  give  the 
promised  exhibition  the  thing  would  not  work 
because  the  spring  was  bent  up  too  much.  It 
is  almost  impossible  to  believe,  but  it  is  neverthe- 
less a  fact  that  it  never  occurred  to  the  giant  in- 
tellect of  this  great  scientist  to  press  that  spring 
down  again,  and  he  had  to  apologize  to  his  audi- 
ence for  the  failure  of  the  much  advertised  ex- 
periment. A  publication  before  application  for  a 


Under  our  system  genuine  needs  are  pointed  out 
to  our  clients 


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COMMITTEE  ON   IRRIGATION   OF  ARID   LANDS 
WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 

May  19,   1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  President, 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 

Dear  Sir: 

Your  firm  has  been  highly  recommended,  and 
it  gives  me  pleasure  to  concur  in  the  endorsements 
given  you.  I  believe  matters  placed  in  your  hands 
before  the  Patent  Office  in  Washington  will  receive 
efficient  attention. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.  C.,  Twelfth  District  of  Georgia. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Hughes 


VICTOR       J.      EVANS      &      CO 


ALEXANDER    GRAHAM     BELL,     INVENTOR    OF    THE    TELEPHONE,     WHOSE 

ORIGINAL     PATENT     WAS     THE     MOST    VALUABLE     EVER 

ISSUED    IN    ANY    COUNTRY 

From  a  copyrighted  photograph   by  Pach,  New   York 


patent  is  a  bar  in  England,  and  when  the  great 
trial  to  settle  the  validity  of  the  Bell  patents  came 
up  over  there,  it  was  sought  to  prove  this  previ- 
ous publication,  and  this  lecture  was  a  case  in 
point;  but  it  was  conclusively  proved  that  there 
had  been  no  publication  in  this  lecture,  because 
the  model  would  not  work.  Had  Lord  Kelvin 


Patents  are  the  open  door  to  wealth  for  a  poor  man 


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PATENT      ATTORNEYS 

IHmu.r  of  ^Krpr  rsrn  tut  tars .  31.  jg>. 
Washington,  D.  C., 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Your  firm  having  been  so  highly  recommended 
to  me  as  being  in  every  way  reliable,  I  take  pleas- 
ure in  commending  you  to  those  having  business 
with  the  Patent  Office. 

Very  truly  yours, 
(Signed)     J.THOMPSON  BAKER, 

M.  C.,  2d  Dist,  N.  J. 


of  iKrprcBrntatturs,  31.  .*. 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  8,  1913. 

To  Whom  It  May  Concern : 

It  has  been  represented  to  me  from  reliable 
sources  that  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company,  Patent 
Attorneys,  Washington,  D.  C.,  are  well  equipped 
to  execute  business  entrusted  to  them  in  a  ca- 
pable manner.  Personally  I  know  nothing  at  all 
about  the  firm  and  have  never  had  occasion  to 
avail  myself  of  its  services.  However,  I  have 
every  reason  to  believe,  from  statements  made 
to  me,  that  the  firm  is  reliable  and  will  give 
prompt  attention  to  business  entrusted  to  it. 

Very  truly  yours, 
(Signed)     HENRY  T.  RAINEY, 

M.  C.,  2oth  Dist.,  Illinois. 


Financial  reward  is  the  greatest  inducement  to  invention 

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pressed  down  that  little  spring  and  shown  those 
Scotch  laddies  how  the  telephone  worked,  it 
would  have  cost  the  Bell  Company  many  millions 
of  dollars  and  made  telephony  very  cheap  in  Eng- 
land. 

Most  successful  inventors  are  men  who  have 
been  brought  up  in  connection  with  the  business 
to  which  their  inventions  are  to  be  applied,  or 
have  at  least  made  themselves  familiar  with  the 
laws  governing  the  processes  which  they  seek  to 
improve.  There  are  cases  in  which  inventors 
have  discovered  new  laws  or  new  applications 
of  old  ones,  especially  in  chemical  processes. 
The  Bessemer  converter  is  a  familiar  ex- 
ample. The  cyanide  process  of  washing  gold 
and  the  manufacture  of  acetylene  gas  are  others. 
Some  inventors  have  had  courage  enough  to  dis- 
pute the  established  facts  of  science,  as  in  the  case 
of  some  recent  experiments  in  fog  signaling  in 
which  the  inventor  used  the  principle  denied  by 
such  eminent  authorities  as  Tyndall  and  Profes- 
sor Henry. 

It  is  well  known  that  there  is  very  little  money 
in  surface  washing  or  placer  mining  for  gold,  and 
that  all  the  big  profits  are  made  out  of  long  and 
patient  development  of  deep  mines.  The  same 
is  true  of  patents.  There  is  very  little  profit  in 
inventions  which  can  be  realized  upon  almost  im- 
mediately. They  are  mere  surface  washings.  All 
the  big  things  have  taken  time  and  patience  to 
bring  to  perfection,  and  any  inventor  who  finds 
himself  making  quick  profits  may  be  sure  they 
will  be  short-lived,  although  he  may  have  a  good 
thing  while  it  lasts,  like  the  Pigs-in-Clover  puz- 


Some  inventors  receive  large  sums  for  apparently  insignificant 

patents  while  others  who  have  more  meritorious 

patents  allow  them  to  lie  dormant 


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COMMITTEE   ON   THE  TERRITORIES 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May    9,    1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.   Evans,   President, 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 
My  dear  Sirs: 

Your  firm  having  been  so  highly  recommended 
that  it  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  concur  in  the 
endorsements  given  you  by  my  colleagues  in  Con- 
gress. 

I   feel   that   matters   placed   in    your   hands   to   be 
looked  after  before  the  Patent  Office  here  at  Wash- 
ington will  receive  prompt  and  efficient  attention. 
Yours  very  sincerely, 


M.  C.,  4th  Missouri  District. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Booher 


VICTOR      J.      EVANS      &      CO 


JOHN    ERICSEN,    THE     INVENTOR    OF    THE     MONITOR 


zle.  Confidence,  tenacity  of  purpose,  and  capital 
are  the  requisites  for  building  up  fortunes  on  the 
foundation  of  a  patent ;  the  thing  itself  must  have 
intrinsic  merit  or  it  must  fail  before  long. 

The  simplest  inventions  are  the  best  money- 
makers, because  to  perfect  complicated  machines 


Who  can  say  what  wonderful  inventions  we  are  on  the 
eve  of  making?  "Darius  Green  and  his  flying  machine" 
was  the  joke  of  our  childhood.  Flying  is  no  joke  now 

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PATENT      ATTORNEYS 


Hmtnr  nf  iKrpr  rsrniztttura,  it.  -^. 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Gentlemen : 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  recommend  your  firm 
to  anyone  seeking  the  services  of  a  Patent  At- 
torney. 

From  reports  brought  to  me  I  am  satisfied  that 
you  are  reliable,  and  attend  to  all  matters  en- 
trusted to  you  in  a  satisfactory  and  careful  man- 
ner. Very  truly  yours, 

(Signed)     T.  H.  CARAWAY,  M.  C., 

ist  Dist.,  Arkansas. 


of  SU'prrsimtiiiturs,  H.  ^. 
Washington,  D.  C., 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Gentlemen : 

Your  firm  has  so  good  a  reputation  in  this  city 
that  I  feel  safe  in  recommending  it  to  any  seek- 
ing the  services  of  reliable  patent  attorneys. 

Very  truly, 

(Signed)     W.  S.  HAMMOND,  M.  C., 

2d  Dist.,  Minnesota. 


Restricted    claims     and     worthless    patents    are    the   product 
of    incompetent    attorneys 


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costs  time  and  money.  A  great  many  have  ended 
with  the  original  conception,  the  inventor  having 
no  ability  to  handle  detail  so  as  to  carry  out  the 
original  idea  in  a  practical  way.  The  Bessemer 
process  of  converting  steel  is  extremely  simple, 
blowing  hot  air  through  the  molten  metal.  Just 
sit  down  and  get  out  the  drawings  for  a  machine 
which  will  carry  out  this  idea,  especially  the  ar- 
rangements for  controlling  the  supply  of  air  that 
is  admitted  to  the  converter,  and  see  how  soon 
you  will  find  the  first  idea  is  a  small  part  of  the 
invention  as  a  whole.  The  use  of  compressed  air 
as  a  motive  power  was  understood  and  appreci- 
ated 30  years  ago,  but  no  one  could  invent  a  gov- 
ernor which  would  control  it,  although  hundreds 
of  patents  were  taken  out  which  professed  to  do 
so.  The  power  of  the  steam  from  a  kettle  was 
evident  to  Watt  long  before  he  could  devise  a 
means  of  utilizing  it.  The  combination  of  the 
piston  and  slide  valve,  which  looks  so  simple  to 
us  now,  was  not  worked  out  in  a  day. 

It  is  a  common  practice  to  speak  contemptu- 
ously of  inventors  on  account  of  their  exagger- 
ated notions  of  the  value  of  their  ideas.  When 
the  invention  is  obviously  a  delusion  this  is  quite 
natural,  but  it  must  not  be  forgotten  that  without 
this  infatuation  for  the  creatures  of  their  brains, 
inventors  would  be  much  more  easily  discouraged 
than  they  are,  and  many  of  the  most  valuable  in- 
ventions might  be  lost.  The  tenacity  with  which 
some  of  them  cling  to  their  ideas  until  they 
finally  force  their  adoption  upon  the  world  almost 
amounts  to  inspiration.  It  seems  born  in  some 
men  to  fight  harder  for  the  children  of  their  brains 


Stop,  think  and  invent  something  valuable.     Patent  it  and 
make  a  fortune 


of  Sxrprrsmtutiurs,  II.  -•*. 


COMMITTEE   ON    LABOR 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May    9,    1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,   D.   C. 
Dear  Sir: 

Your  firm  having  been  endorsed  by  Speaker 
Clark  and  other  members  of  the  Missouri  delega- 
tion for  its  honesty  and  careful  attention  to  busi- 
ness, together  with  efficiency,  I  take  pleasure  in 
commending  your  firm  to  people  who  may  have 
business  before  the  patent  office  here  in  Wash- 
ington. 

Yours  truly, 


M.   C.,    13th  Dist.,  Missouri. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Hensley 


VICTOR   J.   EVANS   &   CO 


GEORGE  W.  YALE,  THE  INVENTOR  OF  THE  YALE  LOCK 


than  for  their  families,  and  it  seems  a  pity  that 
their  reward  is  not  often  greater  than  it  is. 

HOW  PATENTS  PROMOTE  TRADE 

Patents  and  trade  go  hand  in  hand.       Take 
away  the  motive  of  invention  and  you  destroy  an 


Our  relations  with  manufacturers  enable  us  to  present 
inventions  which  are  for  sale 


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of 


May  28,  1913. 
Gentlemen  : 

Knowing  your  firm  is  so  highly  regarded  by 
my  friends  and  colleagues  of  the  House,  I  take 
this  opportunity  to  cheerfully  join  them  in  com- 
mending you  to  any  seeking  your  services. 
Yours  very  truly, 
JOHN  M.  EVANS, 
(Signed)     John  M.  Evans, 
Montana. 

Messrs.  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys. 

Washington,  D.  C. 


Hints  r  ot 

Washington,  D.  C., 

June  2,  1913. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Gentlemen : 

As  so  many  of  my  colleagues  have  recom- 
mended your  firm  to  those  needing  the  services 
of  a  patent  attorney,  I  take  pleasure  in  joining 
them  in  their  recommendation. 
Truly  yours, 
(Signed)     TOM  STOUT, 

Montana. 


As  our  country  grows  so  our  patent  system  develops 
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important  ally  of  improvement.  It  is  said  that 
inventors  will  always  invent;  that  inventions 
come  when  they  are  needed,  and  common  phrase 
makes  them  to  be,  as  it  were,  automatically 
evolved  out  of  the  necessities  of  business.  Inven- 
tions do  not  come  merely  because  they  are 
needed,  but  because  they  are  needed  and  will  be 
paid  for,  and  it  is  only  by  making  them  property, 
and  protecting  them  as  property,  that  they  are 
worth  purchase.  They  are  influenced,  like  other 
things,  by  the  law  of  supply  and  demand ;  but  the 
law  of  supply  and  demand  does  not  operate  where 
there  is  no  inducement  to  supply,  and  no  pay- 
ment accompanies  the  demand.  Demand  must 
come  with  purse  in  hand,  or  supply  does  not  re- 
spond. The  patent  system  is  based  upon  this 
fundamental  law  of  political  economy.  Inven- 
tions do  not  come  when  and  merely  because  they 
are  called  for,  as  by  the  stroke  of  a  magician's 
wand.  Long  years  must  perhaps  be  spent  in 
study  and  costly  experiment. 


It  is  easy  to  invent  a  complicated  machine,  but 
it  takes  a  clever  man  to  invent  a  simple  one. 

When  a  professional  man  trades  on  the  repu- 
tation of  his  predecessors,  it  is  often  because  he 
has  no  reputation  of  his  own. 

In  successful  invention  the  capitalist  and  ex- 
ploiter usually  deserves  as  much  credit  as  the  in- 
ventor himself. 


Your  invention  should  be  in  the  line  of  our 
Nation's  progress 


•Hints r  at  Slrpros  wiatturs,  31.  g>. 

WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May  8,   1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 
Washington,   D.   C. 

My  dear  Sir: 

I  take  great  pleasure  in  concurring  in  the  en- 
dorsements given  you  by  my  colleagues  in  Con- 
gress and  am  glad  to  recommend  your  firm  of 
patent  attorneys  as  being  competent  and  thor- 
oughly capable  and  believe  that  all  matters  placed 
in  your  hands  to  be  looked  after  before  the  Patent 
Office  will  receive  prompt  and  efficient  attention. 
Yours  very  truly, 


M.  C.,  6th  Dist.,  Louisiana. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Morgan 


Inventions  Which   Have 
Made   Millions 

BY  DEXTER  MARSHALL 


& 


IT   IS   the   general   impression   that  the   man 
who    makes    a    great    invention    is    more 
likely    to    die    poor    than    rich.       The    im- 
pression   is    due    partly    to    the     oft-told 
stories  of  the  misfortunes  which  befel  Whitney, 
who  invented  the  cotton  gin ;  Goodyear,  who  first 
vulcanized  India  rubber,  and  Morse,  who  taught 
the  wire  to  write,  and  partly  to  the  ingenious, 
out-at-elbow  chaps  you  and  I  and  everybody  else 
know  who  are  always  trying  to  introduce  a  motor 
that  won't  mote,  an  airship  that  won't  fly,  or 
some  other  contrivance  that  won't  work,  or,  if  it 
will,  is  not  wanted  by  the  public. 

Of  course,  plenty  of  inventors  have  been  done 
out  of  their  just  dues,  but,  generally  speaking,  the 
truth  about  their  financial  returns  doesn't  square 
with  the  general  impression.  The  man  whose  in- 
genuity, whose  persistence,  and  whose  practical 
sense  enabled  him  to  devise  a  new  contrivance 
for  the  material  benefit  of  his  fellows  is  as  cer- 
tain of  his  financial  reward  as  the  grocer,  the 
banker,  or  anybody  else. 

Nothing  but  bad  luck  or  the  lack  of  business 
ability  can  keep  him  from  making  money,  and 
the  records  show  that  inventors,  at  least  those 
who  have  invented  the  big  things,  have  been  as 
lucky  as  the  average,  and  have  displayed  more 
business  ability  than  the  general  run  of  mankind. 


The  man  who  capitalizes  other  men's  brains  makes  a  fortune 

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Hmtsr  of  iKrprearittaliurs ,  II.  S>. 

COMMITTEE    ON    EXPENDITURES 

IN   THE   DEPARTMENTS   OF    COMMERCE    AND    LABOR 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

Mr.    Victor   J.   Evans, 

President,  Victor  J.   Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 

Dear  Sir: 

I  take  pleasure  in  certifying  that  the  firm  of 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  patent  attorneys,  can  be 
trusted  in  conducting  business  as  patent  attorneys 
before  the  various  departments  in  Washington. 


M.  C.,   13th  Dist.,   Pennsylvania. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Rothermel 


VICTOR       J.      EVANS      &      CO. 


GUGLIELMO    MARCONI,    WHO    LED    BOTH    IN     THE    INVENTION    AND    IN 
THE    COMMERCIALIZATION    OF    WIRELESS    TELEGRAPHY 

From  a  copyrighted  photograph   by  Pach,   New   York 


Though  the  fortunes  won  by  James  Watt,  who 
invented  the  steam  engine;  George  Stevenson, 
who  built  the  first  practical  locomotive,  and  Rob- 
ert Fulton,  who  contrived  the  first  steamboat 
that  would  go,  would  not  bulk  large  by  the  side 
of  modern  fortunes,  these  men  were  amply  re- 
warded in  their  day  and  generation,  both  in 
money  and  honor.  Fulton,  the  least  of  the  three, 


Millions  untold  are   to  be   reaped.     Will   you  be    one    of 
the  reapers 


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at 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  13,  1913. 
Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

My  dear  Sir : 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  concur  in  the  endorse- 
ment given  your  firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Com- 
pany, patent  attorneys,  by  Speaker  Champ  Clark. 

Sincerely  yours, 

(Signed)     JAMES  T.  LLOYD, 

First  District,  Missouri. 


of  Stepre erntattur a,  It.  0- 

Washington,  D.  C., 

April  30,  1913. 

Your  firm  having  been  so  highly  recommended 
to  me  as  being  in  every  way  reliable,  I  take  great 
pleasure  in  commending  you  to  those  having 
business  with  the  Patent  Office. 

(Signed)     FRANK  O.  SMITH, 

M.  C.,  5th  Dist.,  Maryland. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 


Protect  your  business  by  a  trade-mark 
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perhaps,  because  of  his  death  at  the  compara- 
tively early  age  of  fifty,  in  1815,  while  in  the 
midst  of  his  experiments  with  the  submarine  tor- 
pedo. 

The  rewards  won  by  inventors  in  the  last  fifty 
or  sixty  years  have  been  far  in  excess  of  those 
gained  by  the  earlier  geniuses,  both  actually  and 
relatively.  Here  is  a  little  list: 

The  sewing  machine  was  credited  both  to  Elias 
Howe  and  Isaac  M.  Singer.  Both  died  million- 
aires. 

The  reaper  was  invented  by  Cyrus  H.  McCor- 
mick,  who  amassed  a  vast  fortune.  His  sons  are 
among  the  famous  multi-millionaires  of  today. 

The  telephone,  devised  by  Alexander  Graham 
Bell,  has  made  him  so  rich  that  he  can  spend  as 
much  as  he  likes  on  kites  in  flying  machine  ex- 
periments. 

Ocean  telegraphy  was  made  possible  by  the  in- 
ventions of  William  Thompson,  knighted  because 
of  them  and  now  known  as  Lord  Kelvin,  and 
immensely  wealthy  as  well  as  highly  honored. 

Wireless  telegraphy,  the  invention  of  William 
Marconi,  is  likely  to  make  him  a  millionaire  in 
time,  if  he  has  not  already  passed  that  financial 
mark. 

Cheap  steel,  which  made  the  steel  rail  possible, 
was  the  invention  of  Sir  Henry  Bessemer,  whose 
profits  amounted  to  millions  before  his  death,  and 
whose  rewards  included  all  sorts  of  honors  as 
well  as  money. 

Dry-plate  photography  was  invented  by  George 
Eastman.  The  dry-plate  made  the  amateur  cam- 


Manufacturers  are  dependent  upon  inventors  for  their  success 


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COMMITTEE   ON    REVISION    OF  THE   LAWS 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May  6,    1913. 
Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

President,   Victor  J.   Evans  &  Co., 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 

My  dear  Sir: 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  express  to  the  public  my 
confidence  in  your  company's  ability  to  handle  any 
matters  entrusted  to  you  before  the  Patent  Office 
here  in  Washington,  as  I  am  sure  such  matters  will 
receive  most  careful,  reliable  and  efficient  attention. 
Very  truly  yours, 


M.  C.,  3d  Dist.,  Texas. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Young 


GEO.     M.     PULLMAN,    THE    INVENTOR    OF     SLEEPING     CARS 


era  possible.    Eastman  is  so  rich  he  doesn't  know 
what  to  do  with  his  money. 

The  air  brake  was  invented  by  George  West- 
inghouse.  It  revolutionized  railroading  He  has 
followed  inventions  as  a  business  ever  since,  and 
is  now  one  of  the  most  remarkable  figures  in  the 


The  simplest  things,  conception  of  vital  minds  in  idle 
moments,  have  proven  of  vast  worth 


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Horns  i"  at  iRpprpspntattu^a,  M. 


Washington,  D.  C.,  May  7,  1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  Pres., 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Dear  Sir  : 

From  the  letters  of  recommendation  I  have 
read  relative  to  your  firm,  said  letters  coming 
from  Hon.  M.  C.  Palmer,  Hon.  Champ  Clark, 
and  other  prominent  Democrats,  I  feel  quite  sure 
that  matters  placed  in  your  hands  will  have  care- 
ful, painstaking  consideration,  and  be  given  effi- 
cient attention. 

I  have  never  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  you 
personally,  and  never  had  any  business  dealings 
with  you,  and  while  all  I  know  of  you  is  hearsay, 
yet  I  feel  quite  sure  that  business  entrusted  to 
your  hands  will  be  looked  after  attentively. 

Very  truly  yours, 
(Signed)     H.  M.  JACOWAY,  M.  C., 

5th  Dist.,  Arkansas. 

iluuu.r  of  2RFpr£BFntattU£B,  II.  4$. 

Washington,  D.  C.,  April  30,  1913. 
To  Whom  It  May  Concern: 

I  am  very  glad  to  sincerely  recommend  the  firm 
of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company,  Patent  Attor- 
neys, Washington,  D.  C.,  as  entirely  reliable  and 
capable  and  I  commend  them  to  any  one  having 
business  in  the  U.  S.  Patent  Office. 

Very  respectfully, 
(Signed)     F.  C.  STEVENS,  M.  C., 

Fourth  District,  Minnesota. 


A    well    made  model    makes   a  strong   impression 
and  may  turn  the  scales  in  your  favor 


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whole  world  of  practical  science  and  industry,  be- 
sides being  a  millionaire  over  and  over. 

Duplex  telegraphy  and  the  incandescent  light 
were  the  products  of  the  genius  of  Thomas  A. 
Edison,  millionaire,  and  the  most  famous  elec- 
trician alive. 

The  "rotating  field"  and  the  transformer  which 
"steps"  the  high  tension  current  "down"  or  "up" 
were  devised  by  Nikola  Tesla,  and  gave  modern 
electric  railroading  a  great  impetus.  If  Tesla 
is  not  a  millionaire,  it  is  solely  because  he  doesn't 
care  to  be  one. 

In  circles  well  informed  upon  such  matters,  it 
is  known  that  George  B.  Selden,  whose  inven- 
tions covering  the  use  of  gasoline  and  other  ex- 
plosive motors  for  automobiles  are  now  return- 
ing royalties  to  him  on  every  devil  wagon  made 
of  the  explosive  hydro-carbon  type,  is  fast  be- 
coming eligible  to  the  millionaire  inventor  class. 
At  present  he  seems  to  hold  the  bulk  of  the  auto- 
mobile industry  in  the  United  States  in  the  hol- 
low of  his  hand.  His  success  is  startling  to  those 
who  for  years  were  vastly  more  amused  than 
anything  else  by  his  inventive  genius. 

Selden  is  a  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  man,  now  just 
under  sixty.  His  father  was  a  judge  of  the  New 
York  State  Court  of  Appeals  and  with  Hiram 
Sibley  was  interested  in  the  early  telegraphic  en- 
terprises of  the  country.  Always  well  to  do,  he 
was  willing  to  allow  his  son,  when  a  boy,  to  de- 
vote his  time  and  a  reasonable  amount  of  money 
to  his  fondness  for  "puttering  around"  with  me- 
chanical contrivances. 


You  may   have  an   idea  that   some  people  think 
absurd.     Persevere 


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THE   MERCHANT   MARINE   AND    FISHERIES 
WASHINGTON,  D,  C. 

May  9,    1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  President, 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company, 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 
Dear  Sir: 

From  -what  I  know  of  you  through  Speaker 
Champ  Clark,  and  other  members  of  our  delega- 
tion, I  feel  warranted  in  commending  your  firm  to 
those  who  have  business  before  the  Patent  Office 
here  in  Washington,  and  feel  sure  they  will  receive 
prompt  and  efficient  service. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.  C.,  3d  Dist.,  Missouri. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Alexander 


PROFESSOR    CATLING,     THE     INVENTOR    OF    THE    CATLING    GUN 


When  he  was  eleven  years  old,  George  B.  took 
a  walk  one  day  with  his  father  and  D.  S.  Morgan, 
later  a  successful  harvester  manufacturer.  It 
was  at  the  time  of  the  wheat  harvest,  and  the  two 
men  talked  about  the  possibility  of  reaping  ma- 
chines, then  new  to  the  world,  and  of  self-mov- 


Small  inventions  are  often  the  most  profitable 


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of 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

From  information  received  from  many  of  my 
friends  and  colleagues  in  Congress,  I  should  not 
hesitate  to  recommend  your  firm  to  anyone  de- 
siring the  services  of  reliable  patent  attorneys. 

Yours  very  truly, 
(Signed)     WM.  J.  BROWNING,  M.  C., 

First  Dist,  New  Jersey. 


of  iReprFsentattuies,  II.  ^. 

Washington,  D.  C., 

May  5,  1913. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen. 

While  I  have  had  no  personal  business  with 
you,  you  are  so  highly  recommended  by  a  large 
number  of  gentlemen  in  whom  I  have  confidence 
that  I  feel  that  any  business  intrusted  to  you 
would  be  carefully  conducted,  and  business  rela- 
tions with  you  would  be  pleasant  and  profitable. 

Yours  truly, 

(Signed)     H.  O.  YOUNG,  M.  C., 
y-w  i  ath  Dist.,  Michigan. 


Delays  are  dangerous  in  patent  matters 

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ing  road  wagons.  Their  talk  fixed  the  idea  of 
power  wagons  in  the  lad's  mind.  When  he  was 
older  it  bore  practical  fruit. 

It  was  his  idea  from  the  first  to  invent  some- 
thing— he  doesn't  seem  to  have  cared  much  what 
— that  would  bear  patenting  and  would  produce 
a  fortune.  He  studied  law  in  the  meantime,  mak- 
ing patent  law  a  specialty,  as  much,  perhaps,  to 
enable  himself  to  look  after  his  interests  as  an 
inventor  as  anything  else. 

But  all  the  time  he  was  working  out  his  self- 
moving  road  wagon  idea,  and  in  1878  or  1879  he 
made  his  first  application  for  a  patent. 

This  application  was  not  pushed  at  once,  but 
he  did  build  a  horseless  buggy,  which  was  run 
upon  the  streets,  the  motive  power  being  fur- 
nished by  gasoline  used  explosively.  His  ma- 
chine would  run,  too,  but,  curious  as  it  may  seem 
to  the  present  generation,  nobody  save  Selden 
himself  appeared  to  think  there  was  anything  in 
it,  and  most  of  the  newspapers  ridiculed  it  as  a 
"freak."  Selden  didn't  mind  all  that,  however; 
he  just  went  right  along  practicing  patent  law  for 
the  immediate  dollar  and  perfecting  his  invention 
for  the  future. 

Like  the  shrewd  patent  lawyer  that  he  is,  he 
kept  the  application  alive  and  continuously  before 
the  Patent  Office  by  a  change  or  improvement 
therein  every  year,  and  in  1895,  deeming  the 
world  just  about  ripe  for  his  invention,  the  patent 
was  finally  secured.  It  was  not  until  1898,  how- 
ever, that  automobiling  began  to  grow  in  such  a 
way  as  to  help  Selden,  but  in  that  year  the  boom 
began  in  earnest. 


Our  clients'  interests  are  our  interests 

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WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 

May  9,   1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,   D.   C. 

My    dear   Mr.    Evans: 

I  am  very  glad  to  concur  in  the  endorsement 
given  your  firm  by  my  colleagues  in  Congress  and 
feel  that  all  business  entrusted  to  you  will  receive 
prompt,  honest  and  efficient  services. 

With  kindest  personal  regards,  I  remain, 


M.    C.,    6th   Dist.,    Wisconsin. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Reilly 


SIR     HENRY     BESSEMER,     THE    ENGLISH     METALLURGIST     AND     INVENTOR, 

WHOSE     EPOCH-MAKING     PROCESS     IN     STEEL     MANUFACTURE 

MADE    HIM    A    MILLIONAIRE 

From  a  photograph  by  Elliott  &  Fry,   London 


At  the  beginning  electric  automobiles  had  the 
call ;  later  the  race  appeared  to  be  between  steam 
and  gasoline ;  still  later,  as  now  is  the  case,  gaso- 
line had  the  lead  over  both  rivals.  Selden  as- 
serted that  every  one  of  the  devices  for  using 
gasoline  in  automobile  propulsion  was  an  in- 


Inventions  confer  a  lasting  benefit  on  humanity 

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Washington,  D.  C.,  January  24,  1914. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Dear  Sir: 

I  take  pleasure  in  recommending  your  firm  to 
my  friends  who  may  have  business  before  the 
Patent  Office   here  at  Washington.     I  feel  that 
they  will  receive  prompt  service  and  careful  at- 
tention to  any  matters  they  place  in  your  hands. 
Yours  very  truly, 
FRED  L.  BLACKMON,  M.  C., 

4th  Alabama  District. 


linns?  of  StepresentattoB,  11.  d. 

Washington,  D.  C.,  January  24,  1914. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Gentlemen  : 

From  information  before  me  which  is  reliable 
I  wish  to  state  that  your  firm  stands  well  in 
every  respect  and  is  thoroughly  trustworthy. 
Yours  very  truly, 

DUDLEY  DOOLITTLE, 
DD-CH  4th  District  Kansas. 


Records  of  the  patent  office  demonstrate  in  how  many  ways  in- 
genuity can  vault  from  obscurity  into  affluence  and  eminence. 
Always  room  for  a  good  idea;  always  a  market  for  good  judgment 

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fringemcnt  on  his  patent  and  claimed  royalty  for 
every  machine  not  steam  or  electric  that  was  built 
anywhere  by  anybody. 

At  first  his  claim  was  laughed  at  as  a  freak 
idea.  When  suits  were  begun  there  was  "scorn- 
ful amazement ;"  the  notion  that  possibly  he  was 
right  seems  to  have  occurred  to  nobody. 

By  1903,  though,  "the  other  fellows"  began  to 
sit  up  and  take  notice,  and  when  the  Federal 
courts  began  to  decide  in  his  favor  they  began  to 
capitulate.  Later  decisions  brought  in  many  of 
the  others. 

Not  only  have  several  of  the  big  auto  makers 
been  paying  for  a  year  or  two  now,  but  they 
have  formed  an  organization  to  help  the  inventor 
by  prosecuting  the  makers  who  haven't  come  in. 

Mr.  Selden  refused  the  other  day  to  say  how 
much  his  royalties  have  amounted  to,  but  he  told 
a  friend  that  the  minimum  for  the  present  twelve 
months  would  be  larger  than  he  had  ever  made 
in  any  one  year  from  his  profession,  except  that 
in  which  he  settled  the  famous  Gordon  McCor- 
mick  grain  binder  suit  and  collected  $250,000. 
Foreign  as  well  as  American  manufacturers  have 
to  pay. 

At  fifty-nine  George  Westinghouse,  the  em- 
ployer of  men  in  squads  of  10,000,  controlling 
works  that  make  his  machines  in  four  European 
countries  and  Canada,  as  well  as  the  United 
States,  is  still  an  inventor.  In  fact,  he  shares 
with  Edison  first  place  among  those  who  carry  on 
invention  as  a  business,  and  includes  among  his 
employes  more  salaried  inventors  than  any  other 


Patent  your  idea*  and  do  not  go  to  sleep  upon  your  rights 


Simun*  of  2&£pr£S£tttattu:es,  II. 


WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 

May  9,   1913. 

Victor  J.   Evans   &   Co., 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  Pres., 

Washington,   D.   C. 

My  dear  Sir: 

I  am  glad  to  concur  in  the  endorsements  which 
Speaker  Clark  and  my  colleague  from  Wisconsin, 
Hon.  M.  E.  Burke,  have  given  to  the  firm  of  Victor 
J.  Evans  &  Co.,  Patent  Attorneys,  as  I  feel  that  any 
business  entrusted  to  said  firm  will  receive  prompt, 
honest  and  efficient  service. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.   C.,   9th  Wisconsin  District. 


Endorsement   of  Representative   Konop 


VICTOR      J.      EVANS      &      CO. 


ROBT.     HOE,    THE    INVENTOR    OF    NUMEROUS    PRINTING' PRESSES 


man,  except,  possibly,  his  great  rival,  General 
Electric,  or  the  Bell  Telephone  Company. 

It  was  Westinghouse  who,  by  taking  up  and 
encouraging  Tesla,  who  is  still  in  his  employ, 
practically  developed  the  electric  railroad. 

The  classic  story  of  his  interview  with  Commo- 
dore Vanderbilt,  during  which  the  latter  said  it 


Make  your  inventions  in  an  art  with  which  you  are  acquainted. 

You  may  know  more  about  agriculture 

than  artillery 


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of 

Washington,  D.  C.,  February  3,  1914. 

Messrs.  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
My  Dear  Sirs: 

I  take  pleasure  in  recommending  your  firm  as 
an  able,  competent  and  trustworthy  firm  of  long 
practical  experience  before  the  United  States 
Patent  Office,  and  have  no  hesitancy  in  recom- 
mending you  to  any  and  all  who  may  have  busi- 
ness to  transact  in  the  procuring  of  patents  or 
the  examination  of  the  files. 
Sincerely  yours, 

W.  B.  FRANCIS. 


of 

Washington,  D.  C.,  January  19,  1914. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Victor  Building, 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen  : 

It  gives  me  great  pleapure  to  recommend 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.  to  any  of  my  constituents 
who  desire  the  services  of  a  Patent  Attorney. 

Mr.  Evans'  reputation  is  such  that  all  matters 
to  come  before  the  Patent  Office  are  in  safe  and 
efficient  hands. 

Very  truly  yours, 

J.  R.  CLANCY, 
35th  District,  New  York. 


Employing  us   as  attorneys,  you  have  the   advantage   of   the 

services  of   experts  in  the  class  of  invention 

to  which   your  ideas  pertain 

a  

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was  absurd  to  think  a  railroad  train  could  be 
"stopped  with  wind,"  winding  up  with  the  dec- 
laration that  he  had  "no  time  to  talk  with 

fools,"  is  good  enough  to  be  true. 

But  at  all  events  the  New  York  Central  would 
have  none  of  the  invention,  and  it  was  first  tested 
in  1867  on  a  part  of  what  is  now  the  Panhandle 
division  of  the  Pennsylvania  lines.  On  the  very 
first  trial  of  the  brake,  applied  to  an  accommoda- 
tion train,  it  prevented  an  accident  before  the 
train  had  been  running  fifteen  minutes.  A  team 
was  carelessly  driven  directly  in  front  of  the  en- 
gine, running  at  a  high  rate  of  speed,  but  the  train 
was  stopped  in  time  by  the  air  brake  and  no  one 
was  hurt.  That  settled  the  case  in  favor  of  the 
brake,  of  course.  The  progress  of  Westinghouse 
has  been  continuous  and  rapid  ever  since.  Today 
he  is  a  big  personal  factor  in  many  of  the  great 
enterprises  of  the  world,  entirely  outside  his  own 
particular  lines,  among  other  things  of  the  Equit- 
able Life  Assurance  Society,  of  which  he  is  a 
director. 

Steel  making  has  reached  its  highest  develop- 
ment both  as  to  methods  and  yearly  output  in 
America,  but  it  was  an  Englishman  named  Henry 
Bessemer  whose  inventions  made  possible  the 
present  age  of  steel. 

Bessemer  made  his  steel  invention  about  ten 
years  earlier  than  Westinghouse  invented  the  air 
brake  and  had  an  infinitely  harder  time  intro- 
ducing it,  perhaps  because  of  English  conserva- 
tism. In  fact,  although  his  steel  was  almost  in- 
conceivably better  and  vastly  cheaper  than  any 


Our  clients  are  our  best  advertisers 

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COMMITTEE   ON    PATENTS 
WASHINGTON,    D.   C. 


May  6,   1913. 
Mr.    Victor   J.    Evans, 

Victor   J.    Evans   &   Co., 

Patent   Attorneys,    Washington,   D.    C. 

My  dear  Mr.   Evans: 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  commend  your  firm 
to  the  public  as  one  that  will  give  to  all  business 
before  the  Patent  Office  here  in  Washington, 
prompt,  efficient  and  honest  service. 

Wishing  you  every  success  in  your  work,  I  am 
Sincerely    yours, 


M.  C.,  2d  Dist.,  Florida. 


Endorsement    of    Representative    Clark 


VICTOR      J.      EVANS      &      CO. 


other,  it  was  a  long  time  before  it  could  win  its 
way. 

The  Westinghouse  brake  won  almost  instant 
favor  after  preventing  one  accident.  In  order 
to  make  the  British  railroad  men  appreciate  his 
invention,  Bessemer  had  to  lay  down  a  steel  rail 
on  a  part  of  a  railroad  where  the  traffic  was  par- 
ticularly wearing  and  wait  till  it  had  outworn 
twenty-three  iron  ones  before  its  value  was  sen- 
sibly appreciated.  After  that  even  the  conserv- 
ative Britons  could  no  longer  hold  out,  and  as 
Bessemer  had  predicted  years  before,  "the  age 
of  iron  was  finished;  the  age  of  steel  begun." 

His  invention  was  not  taken  up  at  the  Gov- 
ernment's Woolwich  arsenal  until  it  has  been  ac- 
cepted everywhere  else,  and  it  has  been  said  that 
his  knighthood,  which  made  him  Sir  William  Bes- 
semer, was  conferred  upon  him  not  because  of  his 
steel,  but  after  Bessemer  himself  had  told  Lord 
Beaconsfield  the  circumstances  of  the  great  sav- 
ing the  Government  had  realized  through  adopt- 
ing his  suggestion  regarding  forged  stamps.  The 
British  Government  forbade  him,  in  1867,  to  ac- 
cept the  Grand  Cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honor 
from  France.  Later,  however,  guns  made  of  his 
steel  were  the  pride  of  Woolwich,  and  he  was 
allowed  to  accept  all  the  honors  that  came  his 
way. 

Bessemer  died  in  1898  at  a  great  age.  His 
wealth  never  approached  the  multi-millionaire 
grade,  though  he  was  a  millionaire  even  in  Eng- 
land, where  the  pound  sterling  is  the  unit  of 
wealth.  In  1870,  when  the  original  patents  had 
expired,  his  profits  and  royalties  had  been  a  mil- 


The   things   that   now  are  may  in  50  years  be   compared  in 

crudity  to  the  things  that  were 

100  years  ago 

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of  Steprestfutattues,  1L  &. 

Washington,  D.  C.,  January  19,  1914. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent  Attorneys, 

Washington,  D.  C. 

My  dear  Mr.  Evans: 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  recommend  your 
firm  of  Victor  Evans  &  Company,  patent  at- 
torneys, to  my  friends  who  may  have  business 
before  the  Patent  OfBce  here  in  Washington. 
From  information  received  I  feel  that  they  will 
receive  at  your  hands  prompt,  honest  and  effi- 
cient services. 

Wishing  you  success  you  deserve,  I  am, 
Sincerely, 

BRYAN  F.  MAHAN. 


•House  nf  Stepr^Btftttatlues,  H.  &* 

Washington,  D.  C.,  January  24,  1914. 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 

Gentlemen : 

From  strong  testimonials  which  you  have  sub- 
mitted respecting  your  trustworthiness  as  Pa- 
tent Attorneys  I  feel  justified  in  commending 
your  firm  to  any  of  my  constituents  having  busi- 
ness before  the  Patent  Office. 
Very  truly  yours, 

JOSEPH  HOWELL. 


We  make  a  specialty  of  rejected  cases 

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lion  sterling,  or  $5,000,000,  and  his  wealth  was 
greater  than  that  figure. 

It  was  through  the  licensed  use  of  Bessemer's 
invention  that  Carnegie  and  all  the  American 
steel  kings  made  their  millions  mainly,  though 
two  of  them,  Haywood  Harvey,  now  dead,  whose 
method  of  hardening  steel  revolutionized  the 
making  of  armor  for  ships,  and  Charles  M. 
Schwab  were  both  inventors  of  improved  steel 
processes.  Harvey's  son  is  understood  to  be  pil- 
ing up  more  millions  than  ever  his  father  accu- 
mulated. Schwab's  rating  as  a  millionaire  has 
fluctuated  somewhat  in  the  last  few  years,  but  as 
he  now  had  a  Christmas  house-warming  of  his 
Riverside  marble  palace  in  New  York  last  year 
he  may  be  safely  included  among  the  multi-mil- 
lionaire steel  inventors. 

The  Krupps,  of  Essen,  Germany,  have  prob- 
ably made  more  money  than  any  other  steel  in- 
ventors, partly,  however,  because  they  have  been 
at  it  longer  than  any  of  the  others.  Like  West- 
inghouse,  their  millions  have  grown  largely  be- 
cause they  have  always  controlled  the  manufac- 
ture of  their  own  devices,  but  the  invention  that 
enabled  the  original  Krupp  to  develop  the  famous 
works  at  Essen  had  nothing  to  do  with  steel. 

It  was  a  machine  for  rolling  silver  plate  from 
which  to  stamp  out  spoon  blanks,  the  patents 
upon  which  he  sold  in  London.  This  was  in  the 
early  thirties,  when  the  iron  works  at  Essen  em- 
ployed only  nine  men.  Already  he  had  in  mind 
the  perfection  of  a  steel  gun  barrel,  but  it  was 
only  a  hobby  with  him  for  years  after  that. 


In    securing    patents,  success   depends  upon    the   employment 
of  the  best  attorneys 


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COMMITTEE    ON   THE   PUf.lC    LAND 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 


Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  M*V   6»    1913- 

President,  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Patent  Attorneys,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Sir: 

Your  firm  bears  such  an  enviable  reputation  for 
honest,  capable  service  that  I  am  glad  to  join  my 
colleagues  in  Congress  in  connection  with  their 
most  emphatic  endorsement  of  your  firm.  I 
should  regret  it  if  all  business  intrusted  to  your 
firm  should  not  receive  careful,  painstaking  atten- 
tion. I  believe  business  will  receive  capable,  prompt 
and  careful  attention  at  the  hands  of  your  firm  at 
all  times. 

I  am  glad  to  recommend  your  firm  to  my  friends 
having  business  with  it. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.  C.,  5th  Dist.,  Oklahoma. 


Endorsement   of   Representative   Ferris 


VICTOR       J.      EVANS      &      CO 


EL1HU    THOMSON,     WH.O    MADE    A    FORTUNE    OUT    OF     ELECTRIC     WELDING. 
WHICH     IS    ONLY    ONE    OF     HIS     FIVE     HUNDRED     PATENTS 

From  a  photograph  by  MacDonald,  New  York 

It  was  Alfred  Krupp,  second  in  the  line,  who 
perfected  the  Krupp  field  cannon,  which  he  first 
exhibited  in  London  in  1851. 

Dr.  Richard  Gatling,  whose  fame  rests  on  the 
multi-barrel  gun  bearing  his  name,  made  money 
from  his  many  inventions,  but  was  not  a  multi- 
millionaire when  he  came  to  die,  a  few  years  ago. 


As  our  country  grows  so  our  patent  system  develops 


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PATENT      ATTORNEYS 


PIONEER    GASOLINE    LIGHTING    CO. 

CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS,  U.  S    A. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

No.  615  F  Street  N.W., 

Washington,    D.    C. 
Dear   Sir: 


uinci    applications    wuicn    you    nave    niea    ior    me. 

I  wish  to  compliment  you  on  the  thorough  manner  in  which  you  havt 
handled  all  my  applications  for  United  States  and  foreign  patents  and 
the  applications  quickly  show  that  they  are  dictated  by  an  expert  me- 
chanical mind  that  thoroughly  understands  the  mechanical  as  well  as  the 
other  advantages  in  the  article.  It  is  certainly  a  pleasure  to  have  my 
patent  business  attended  to  by  an  attorney  capable  of  interpreting  my 
meaning  so  thoroughly  and  also  capable  of  understanding  the  devices 
so  perfectly  that  you  can  write  even  a  better  description  of  them  than 
the  inventor. 

The  last  two  patents  you  secured  for  me  required  less  time  than  any 
I  have  ever  secured,  and  I  particularly  appreciate  this  feature  of  your 
services.  One  of  the  patents  you  secured  for  me  some  time  ago,  and 
which  I  once  thought  worthless,  has  made  me  many  thousands  of  dol- 
lars, due  entirely  to  the  fact  that  the  claim  you  wrote  out  for  me 
was  so  skillfully  and  carefully  prepared.  Had  this  claim  not  been  so 
thoroughly  made  clear,  which  is  the  trouble  with  so  many  patent  attor- 


M.    W.     PlTNM. 


THE    NATIONAL    METALLIC    PACKING    CO. 

OBERLIN,  OHIO 

April  19,  1906. 
Evans,  Wilkens  &  Co., 

Washington,    D.    C. 
Gentlemen : 

We  desire  to  take  this  opportunity  to  advise  you  of  our  appreciation 
of  the  services  rendered  us  by  you  in  connection  with  our  recent  patents 
on  Metallic  Packings.  We  are  satisfied  that  the  results  attained  by  you 
in  securing  the  claims  you  did  in  these  inventions,  testifies  in  the 
strongest  terms  to  your  ability  and  professional  regard  for  your  duties 
toward  your  clients.  The  prompt  services  rendered  us,  in  connection 
with  the  breadth  of  claims  secured,  shows  the  highest  technical  and 
business  skill,  and  our  appreciation  of  such  warrants  us  in  assuring  you 
that  our  future  business,  and  that  of  any  others  whom  we  can  influence, 
will  be  placed  in  your  care. 

Yours    truly, 
THE  NATIONAL  METALLIC  PACKING  Co., 

PIT  E.  M.   Ce»k. 


A  good  patent  is  more  valuable  today  than  ever 


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He  had  a  hard  time  getting  his  gun  before  the 
world,  and  the  United  States  Government,  to 
whom  it  was  first  offered  in  Civil  War  times,  did 
little  with  it. 

One  of  the  fortunes  considered  noteworthy, 
even  in  this  multi-millionaire  country  of  ours,  at 
least  until  the  hundred-millionaire  became  so 
common,  was  won  by  Samuel  Colt,  who  devised 
the  revolver.  He  invented  it  before  1850,  but  the 
fortune  it  created  is  still  worth  while. 

Colt  was  a  boy  inventor.  He  was  born  a  year 
later  than  Sir  Henry  Bessemer,  but  died  forty- 
three  years  ago  at  the  early  age  of  forty-eight. 
When  fourteen  he  ran  away  from  the  home  of 
his  father,  a  woolen  manufacturer,  of  Hartford, 
Conn.,  and  shipped  aboard  a  sailing  vessel  bound 
for  India. 

Something,  maybe  a  shooting  affray,  turned  his 
attention  to  the  need  of  a  small  firearm  that 
would  shoot  more  than  once  at  one  loading,  and 
when  he  returned  home,  after  the  voyage  was 
over,  he  had  with  him  a  wooden  model  of  the 
first  revolver,  which  he  had  whittled  out  of  pine 
with  a  jackknife. 

The  first  Colt's  revolver  had  twelve  barrels  and 
in  action  the  Mexicans  were  almost  as  badly  af- 
fected by  fright  at  seeing  one  pistol  shoot  a 
dozen  times  without  reloading  as  by  the  bullets 
themselves. 

Of  course,  this  gave  the  Colt  revolver  an  enor- 
mous boom.  The  works  had  to  be  remodeled ;  in 
1852  new  ones,  the  largest  arms  works  in  the 
world,  either  government  or  private,  were  built, 
and  in  1861,  when  the  Civil  War  broke  out,  their 
capacity  was  doubled. 

Patents  are  the  open  door  to  wealth  for  a.  poor  man 


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COMMITTEE   ON    AGRICULTURE 
WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May    8,    1913. 

To  Whom  It  May  Concern: 

It  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  recommend  the 
firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company,  patent  attor- 
neys, to  any  of  my  constituents  or  friends  who  may 
.  have  business  for  the  Patent  Office  at  Washington, 
as  I  feel  sure  that  the  firm  is  reliable  and  capable 
and  will  conscientiously  take  care  of  any  business 
entrusted  to  their  care. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.    C.,   4th   Dist.,    Illinois. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  McDermott 


THADDEUS     FAIRBANKS,     THE     INVENTOR     OF     WEIGHING 
MACHINES    AND     SCALES 


The  big  fortunes  of  Hudson  and  Hiram  Maxim, 
the  latter  knighted  in  England,  by  the  way,  be- 
cause of  the  Maxim  machine  gun,  are  founded  on 
inventions  analogous  to  Gatling's  and  Colt's. 

The  three  most  famous  living  electrical  inven- 
tors— one  of  the  richest  of  these  making  for- 
tunes directly  from  inventions  without  depending 
upon  manufactures — are  Thomas  Alva  Edison, 
Alexander  Graham  Bell  and  Lord  Kelvin. 


Your  success  depends  upon  the  careful  selection  of 
your  attorney 


$     MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 


AMERICAN    LOCOMOTIVE    COMPANY 

SCHENECTADY    WORKS 

SCHENECTADY.    N.    Y. 

April  6,  1906. 

Messrs.   Evans,   Wilkens  &  Co., 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen  : 

1  desire  to  express  my  thanks  for  and  high  appreciation  of 
your  services  in  my  behalf  in  the  preparation  and  prosecution 
of  the  large  number  of  patent  applications  which  I  have  placed 
in  your  hands  during  the  past  few  years.  I  have  had  ample 
opportunity  of  considering  your  business  methods,  and  it 
affords  me  great  satisfaction  to  say  that  you  have  handled 
my  cases  with  a  high  degree  of  care  and  skill,  and,  owing  to 
your  aggressive  efforts  and  energy  in  prosecution,  have  se- 
cured for  me  patents  of  broad  scope  and  value  in  the  locomo- 
tive and  automobile  industries. 

I  have  been  particularly  impressed  with  your  desire  and 
ability  to  obtain  protective  patents  for  your  clients,  and  can 
and  do  cheerfully  recommend  you  as  prompt,  careful  and  re- 
liable attorneys. 

Very  truly  yours, 

C.  K.  LASSITER, 

Mechanical  Expert. 

M.   WINTER   LUMBER  CO 
SHEBOYGAN.   Wis..   U.   S.   A. 

2/3/04. 
Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,  D.  C. 
Gentlemen : 

Your  favor  of  the  27th  ult.  at  hand,  for  which  we  thank  you. 
I  am  very  much  pleased  indeed  to  hear  that  you  have  secured 
the  allowance  of  eight  claims  in  the  bracket  application,  and 
that  you  are  confident  that  you  will  secure  the  allowance  of 
the  first  six  claims  presented  in  the  sheave  roller  application, 
together  with  the  two  additional  claims  presented  in  your 
amendment.  I  am  very  much  pleased  with  the  attention  you 
are  giving  the  matter  and  will  say  that  should  you  ever  desire 
a  testimonial  letter  from  me  regarding  the  satisfactory  work 
you  have  done  for  us,  we  will  be  glad  to  furnish  you  one. 
Yours  truly, 

CHARLES  F.  KADE, 

V.-Pres.  &•  Gen.  Mgr. 


You  may    have  an   idea  that   some  people  think 
absurd.     Persevere 


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VICTOR      J.      EVANS      &      CO. 


The  first  is  of  American  birth  and  ancestry. 
The  second  is  a  native  of  England,  though  his 
personal  development  has  been  mainly  American, 
and,  as  he  has  said  himself,  the  telephone  is  an 
American  product.  Lord  Kelvin  is  Scotch-Irish 
by  birth  and  thoroughly  British  in  development. 

Cyrus  W.  Field,  an  American,  raised  the  money 
and  furnished  the  enthusiasm,  the  executive  abil- 
ity, and  the  persistence  that  called  into  being  the 
ocean  cable  inventions  on  which  Kelvin's  great 
repute  are  based. 

Edison's  best  noteworthy  invention,  the  duplex 
telegraph,  cheapened  the  transmission  of  intelli- 
gence incalculably.  His  incandescent  light  was 
revolutionary,  his  contribution  to  the  perfected 
telephone  was  of  great  value,  his  phonograph — 
one  of  the  few  strictly  original  ones  among  mod- 
ern inventions — opened  a  new  world. 

The  telephone,  legally  and  probably  rightfully 
counted  Bell's,  has  made  a  greater  revolution 
even  than  the  electric  light. 

Lord  Kelvin's  galvometer  and  siphon  recorder 
bind  the  continents  together  with  thin  ropes  of 
copper  and  India  rubber,  which  by  annihilating 
time  in  news  transmission  has  quickened  the  pace 
of  the  race  immeasurably. 

Both  Bell  and  Edison  had  to  struggle  to  win 
success.  Edison's  struggle  was  the  harder,  for 
he  had  little  training  of  any  kind,  except  what  he 
got  by  himself,  his  father  being  an  uneducated 
farmer  with  no  money  to  pay  out  on  his  son's 
schooling. 

Edison  says  he  never  was  a  scientific  sharp, 
and  couldn't  be  one  if  he  tried.  He  found  out 


The  first  step  toward  success  is  a.  good  invention 

96 


H  OUST  n f  2Rrjjr  rarutatuu'S,  11.  &>. 


WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May     10,    1913. 
Mr.    Victor   J.    Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 

My  dear  Mr.   Evans: 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  add  my  endorse- 
ment to  those  of  my  colleagues  in  Congress  who 
have  recommended  your  firm  so  highly  and  I  feel 
that  all  matters  placed  in  your  hands  will  receive 
prompt,  honest  and  efficient  services. 
Very  sincerely  yours, 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Kirkpatrick 


OTTMAR     MERGENTHALER,     INVENTOR    OF     THE     TYPESETTING 
MACHINE 


the  secret  of  duplex  telegraphy  in  his  efforts  to 
make  his  work  easier  as  an  operator,  and  all  his 
inventions  except  the  phonograph  have  been 
strictly  labor  saving  in  intent. 

Bell  was  stimulated  and  helped  in  his  work  by 
his  study  of  the  human  ear  as  an  instructor  of 
deafness,  his  sweetheart,  the  accomplished  wo- 
man who  is  now  his  wife,  being  a  deaf  mute. 


The  forces  of  nature  must  be  yet  more  effectively 
harnessed  to  the  wheels  of  commerce 


98 


of  ^RpjirPBtftttattiitta,  3S.  £>. 


WASHINGTON,    D.    C. 


May  8,   1913. 


Mr. 


Victor   J.    Evans, 
Victor  Building, 

Washington,    D.    C. 


My  dear  Sir: 

I  wish  to  say  that  from  what  I  have  been  able  to 
find  out,  your  standing  as  a  member  of  the  bar  here 
is  excellent  and  that  your  reputation  as  an  efficient 
and  competent  patent  attorney  is  first-class.  I 
heartily  recommend  you  to  any  one  seeking  the 
services  of  a  reliable  patent  attorney. 
Very  truly  yours, 


(Deceased) 


M.  C.,  2d  Dist.,  Iowa. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Pepper 


PATENTS     AS 
AN  INVESTMENT 

BY  VICTOR  J.  EVANS 

THE  promotion  or  manufacture  of  a  suc- 
cessful patent  or  the  furnishing  of  patent 
fees  to  inventors  in  return  for  an  inter- 
est in  the  patent  is  the  most  productive 
fields  of  investment  known.  The  amount  required 
is  usually  very  small  and  if  the  invention  is  suc- 
cessful the  returns  are  many  times  greater  than 
in  the  ordinary  fields  of  investment  when  com- 
pared with  the  amounts  invested,  and  many  per- 
sons have  been  made  wealthy  by  the  investment 
of  a  comparatively  small  sum  in  the  initial  pro- 
motion or  manufacture  under  a  patent;  that  is 
by  purchasing  stock  in  a  company  being  formed 
to  promote  the  patent.  For  example,  in  the  tele- 
phone, the  investment  by  several  well-known 
people  at  the  very  start  of  a  few  hundred  dollars 
has  made  those  people  or  their  heirs  today  mil- 
lionaires. This  was  also  true  of  the  Telegraph, 
Linotype,  Air  Brake,  Safety  Razor,  etc. 

The  Bell  Telephone  Company  has  returned 
over  $2,000  for  each  dollar  invested,  having  paid 
$36,000,000  in  dividends.  The  General  Railway 
Signal  Company  has  divided  $480,000  in  profits 
in  four  years.  The  Eastman  Kodak  has  earned 
$500,000  in  twelve  years.  The  Janney  Coupler 
has  returned  $1,864  on  each  dollar  originally  in- 
vested. The  Westinghouse  Air  Brake  Company, 
it  is  estimated,  has  returned  $4,485  for  each  dollar 
originally  invested,  having  made  $30,000,000  in 


Records  of  the  patent  office  demonstrate  in  how  many  ways  in- 
genuity can  vault  from  obscurity  into  affluence  and  eminence. 
Always  room  for  a  good  idea;  always  a  market  for  good  judgment 

100 


$fauac  at  2R*pr*B*tttatiu*s,  U.  ^. 

WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May   9,    1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 

Washington,   D.   C. 

Dear  Sir: 

It   gives   me   great   pleasure   to  add   my   endorse- 
ment concerning  the  firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co. 
•which  has  been  given  by  Speaker  Champ  Clark. 
Yours  truly, 


£<*•• 


HHS/GBS 


M.  C.,  2d  Dist.,  Colo. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Seldomridge 


PROFESSOR    MICHAEL    I.     PUPIN,    OF    COLUMBIA    UNIVERSITY;    AN 
INVENTOR    WHO    HAS    PROVED    TO   BE   A    MASTER    OF    BUSINESS 

From  a  photograph  by  Pack,  New   York 


profits.  The  American  Radiator  Company  has 
paid  $48,000  for  every  hundred  dollars  invested. 
The  Gillette  Safety  Razor  has  proved  one  of  the 
most  profitable  of  recent  inventions.  While  this 
device  in  itself  is  a  mere  improvement  in  the  art 
and  not  by  any  means  the  original  safety  razor, 


If  an  immediate  market  does  not  already  exist  for  your  patent 

it  might  be  created  by  an  intelligent  demonstration 

of  the  improvement 


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Mr.    Victor   J.    Evans,  May  3,   1913. 

Washington,   D.   C. 
Dear  Sir: 

I  take  pleasure  in  joining  with  my  colleagues 
from  Missouri,  Speaker  Clark  and  other  members 
of  the  delegation,  in  commending  the  firm  with 
which  you  are  connected  to  people  who  have  busi- 
ness to  conduct  before  the  Patent  Office  in  Wash- 
ington. 

I  am  sure,  as  President  of  this  Company,  that 
you  will  give  careful  attention  to  all  business  en- 
trusted to  your  care,  and  I  know  that  you  will  ex- 
tend every  courtesy  to  those  who  may  have  business 
with  the  concern. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.  C.,   16th  Dist.,  Missouri. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Rubey. 


MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 


yet  the  net  sales  of  this  company  amount  to 
$2,000,000  a  year.  Less  than  ten  years  ago,  the 
stock  of  the  Gillette  Safety  Razor  Company  was 
offered  in  Boston  for  50  cents  per  share.  Now 
the  stock  is  worth  $200  per  share.  The  Gillette 
invention  is  patented  in  twenty-two  foreign  coun- 
tries, and  the  name  is  protected  by  one  hundred 
trade-marks  registered  abroad.  In  order  to  sup- 
ply the  foreign  demand  alone  for  this  device,  it 
has  been  found  necessary  to  establish  factories  in 
Canada,  England,  France  and  Germany. 

The  Wright  Brothers,  inventors  of  the  aero- 
plane, are  among  the  most  recent  inventors  to  be 
enriched  by  their  patents,  having  sold  their  Amer- 
ican patent  rights  to  a  New  York  corporation  for 
$1,000,000.  They  have  also  sold  their  French 
patent  for  $100,000;  their  Italian  patent  for  $200,- 
ooo,  and  their  German  patent  for  a  large  sum,  the 
exact  figures  of  which  have  not  yet  been  made 
public. 

Recently  a  combination  of  the  owners  of  pa- 
tents relating  to  moving  pictures  was  formed, 
called  the  "Moving  Picture  Patents  Company." 
This  combination  was  capitalized  at  $8,000,000  to 
control  all  of  the  moving  pictures  of  the  world. 
Thomas  A.  Edison  receives  from  the  combination 
$200,000  a  year  royalty  for  his  patents  on  moving 
pictures. 

There  has  also  been  great  developments  in  the 
phonograph  companies.  The  Edison,  Columbia 
and  Victor  companies  put  out  on  an  average  of 
$15,000,000  worth  of  records  a  year.  The  money 
paid  for  phonographs  runs  into  the  millions. 
These  companies  also  have  a  large  foreign  trade, 


The  inventors  of  today  are  quick  to  take  advantage 

of  their  ideas  by  protecting  them 

with  patents 


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WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans,  May  3,   1913. 

Washington,   D.   C. 
Dear  Sir: 

From  the  information  I  have,  from  Speaker  Clark 
and  other  personal  friends,  it  gives  me  pleasure  to 
recommend  the  firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  pat- 
ent attorneys,  of  which  Company  you  are  Presi- 
dent, to  such  of  my  friends  as  may  need  the  serv- 
ices of  an  attorney  before  the  Patent  Office  in 
Washington  City,  having  every  confidence  in  the 
ability  of  your  firm  to  handle  promptly  and  success- 
fully all  business  that  may  be  entrusted  to  it. 
Yours  truly, 


JJR/M 


M.  C.,   14th  Mo.  Dist. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Russell 


$     MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 


exporting    $5,000,000    worth    of    phonographic 
goods  per  year. 

Alfred  Noble,  inventor  of  dynamite  and  founder 
of  the  "Noble  Prize,"  won  both  distinction  and 
fortune.  Before  the  discovery  of  dynamite,  it 
was  almost  impossible  to  use  nitroglycerine,  be- 
cause it  is  poisonous,  very  sensitive  to  shock,  and 
most  dangerous  to  handle.  Being  liquid,  it  could 
not  be  confined  so  as  to  explode  when  ignited  by 
a  simple  fuse.  Noble  tried  to  overcome  these 
deficiencies,  first  by  mixing  the  liquid  with  gun- 
powder, and  he  also  suggested  confining  it  in  a 
tube  having  the  shape  of  a  bore  hole  and  firing 
it  by  means  of  a  small  gunpowder  cartridge. 
But  all  of  this  did  not  avail,  and  accidents  oc- 
curred so  frequently  that  the  use  of  the  blasting 
oil  was  prohibited  in  many  countries.  Noble 
finally  solved  the  problem  of  its  safe  use  by  in- 
venting a  compound  which  he  called  dynamite, 
made  by  mixing  the  nitroglycerine  oil  with  porous 
absorbing  material,  thus  converting  it  into  a 
paste.  Dynamite  proved,  on  experiment,  to  be 
comparatively  insensitive  to  shock,  but  burned 
when  ignited,  and  could  be  properly  exploded  by 
means  of  a  powerful  detonator.  The  invention 
of  dynamite  marks  an  epoch  in  the  history  of 
civilization,  as  it  has  made  it  possible  to  execute 
the  gigantic  engineering  works  of  our  time.  It 
brought  about  a  prodigious  development  of  the 
mining  industry  of  the  world. 

But  for  the  invention  of  the  gas  mantle  by 
Welsbach,  it  is  probable  that  the  electric  light 
would  have  almost  entirely  superseded  gas.  The 
invention  of  this  mantle,  however,  which  quad- 


Financial  reward  is  the  greatest  inducement  to  invention 

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WASHINGTON,   D.   C. 

May   5,    1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

President,  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 

My    dear    Mr.    Evans: 

It  gives  me  pleasure  to  say  through  you  to  the 
public  that  I  am  confident  that  any  and  all  matters 
entrusted  to  your  company  will  have,  before  the 
Patent  Office  here  in  Washington,  the  most  careful, 
efficient  and  reliable  attention. 

Very  truly  yours, 


M.    C.,    12th    Dist.,    Texas. 


Endorsement   cf  Representative   Callaway 


CHARLES    GOODYEAR,    THE    INVENTOR    OF    VULCANIZED    RUBBER 


implicated  the  brilliancy  of  a  gas  flame,  has  caused 
gas  to  withstand  the  rivalry  of  electricity  in  a 
notable  degree.  The  Welsbach  Company  has  re- 
turned $50,000  for  every  $100  originally  invested. 
One  of  the  most  valuable  inventions  was  that  of 
the  type-setting  machine,  invented  by  Otto  Mer- 


If  an  inventor  does  not  patent  his  invention  he  does  not  get  paid 


108 


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WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 

May  5,  1913. 

Mr.    Victor   J.    Evans, 

President,  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 

Dear  Sir: 

It   gives   me  pleasure   to   state  after  investigation 
that  your  firm,  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  Patent  Attor- 
neys, has  a  reputation  for  efficiency  and  fidelity. 
Very  respectfully, 


M.  C.,  15th  Dist.,  Missouri. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Decker 


$     MONEY     $     IN     $      PATENTS     $ 

genthaler,  known  as  the  "Linotype."  When  Mer- 
genthaler  began  his  experiments,  there  had  al- 
ready been  some  four  hundred  patents  granted  for 
typesetting  machines,  and  inventors  had  been 
trying  to  solve  this  problem  for  over  forty  years. 
All  of  these  inventors,  however,  were  trying  to 
set  independent  type.  Mergenthaler  solved  the 
problem  by  inventing  what  was  in  effect  a  type- 
founding  machine,  wherein  new  type  was  cast  in  a 
solid  line,  and  the  type  bars  remelted  for  new 
composition.  The  Mergenthaler  Company  has 
paid  $127,000  for  every  $100  paid  in. 

George  N.  Pullman,  inventor  and  manufacturer 
of  sleeping  cars,  left  a  fortune  in  the  neighbor- 
hood of  $40,000,000.  His  invention  was  primarily 
simply  a  folding  shelf.  His  first  sleeping  car,  the 
"Pioneer,"  was  built  in  1864,  and  while  very 
crude,  proved  an  instant  success.  The  Pullman 
car  has  netted  the  stockholders  $14,000,000  since 
1898. 

George  Hendee,  inventor  of  the  "Indian"  Mo- 
torcycle, in  a  recent  reorganization  of  the  Com- 
pany, at  Springfield,  Mass.,  received  $600,000  in 
cash,  and  $1,000,000  in  stock  in  the  Company. 

Prof.  A.  P.  Anderson,  who  patented  the  process 
for  manufacturing  Puffed  Rice  and  Wheat,  is 
realizing  a  profit  of  $360,000  a  year  from  his 
invention. 

Cyrus  H.  McCormick,  the  inventor  of  the  har- 
vesting machine,  left  a  fortune  of  ten  million 
dollars  from  his  invention. 

Goodyear,  who  first  vulcanized  rubber,  ob- 
tained a  very  large  fortune  from  royalties. 


There  U  a  revolution  in  business  and  manufacture 


jjf  Sirprrjsrnialturs, 

WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 


May  12,   1913. 

Mr.  Victor  J.  Evans, 

Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,    D.    C. 

My  dear  Mr.   Evans: 

I  heartily  concur  in  the  endorsement  given  your 
firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company,  patent  attor- 
neys, by  Speaker  Champ  Clark  and  my  colleagues 
in  Congress. 

Very  sincerely  yours, 


M.  C.,  6th  District,  Indiana. 


Endorsement  of  Representative  Gray 


$     MONEY     $     IN     $     PATENTS     $ 


It  is  said  that  Isaac  Merritt  Singer,  inventor  of 
the  Singer  sewing  machine,  borrowed  $40  to  help 
protect  his  first  sewing  machine,  and  now  one 
factory  alone  turns  out  over  ten  thousand  ma- 
chines a  week.  His  net  income  was  over  $240,000 
for  many  years,  and  for  one  year  it  was  over 
$3,000,000.  At  his  death  he  left  an  estate  worth 
$13,000,000. 

Elias  Howe,  inventor  of  the  sewing  machine 
needle,  received  a  revenue,  from  royalty,  of  $50,- 
ooo  a  year  from  sewing  machine  manufacturers. 

The  Dunlap  Pneumatic  Tire  Company  is  an 
illustration  of  the  mint  of  money  there  is  in 
patents.  It  commenced  with  a  working  capital 
of  $112,500.  It  had  been  in  operation  but  two 
years  when  it  sold  for  $15,000,000  cash.  The 
shareholders  had  then  received  in  dividends  and 
premiums  the  sum  of  $3,290,575,  and  by  the 
terms  of  the  sale  received  a  further  sum  of  $14,- 
437,500,  giving  a  total  result  of  $17,638,075.  The 
purchasers  afterwards  resold  to  another  com- 
pany for  the  sum  of  $25,000,000.  This 
invention  was  only  patented  in  Great  Britain,  as 
Dunlap  did  not  recognize  the  immense  value  of 
his  invention  until  it  was  too  late  to  secure  for- 
eign patents. 

Dunlap  had  an  invalid  son  who  suffered  from 
spinal  trouble  but  who  was  very  fond  of  riding  a 
bicycle.  At  this  time,  bicycles  were  only  provided 
with  hard  rubber  tires,  and  the  jar  was  injurious 
to  the  boy's  spine.  In  seeking  to  overcome  this 
vibration,  Dunlap  took  a  common  garden  hose, 
removed  the  hard  rubber  tire,  and  secured  the 
hose  in  its  place,  thus  inventing  the  present  pneu- 


Stop,  think  and  invent  something  valuable.     Patent  it  and 
make  a  fortune 


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WASHINGTON,   D.  C. 

May   2,    1913. 

Mr.    Victor   J.    Evans, 

President,  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Co., 
Patent   Attorneys, 

Washington,   D.   C. 

Dear  Sir: 

I  take  pleasure  in  recommending  to  the  public 
the  firm  of  Victor  J.  Evans  &  Company.  This 
firm  sustains  the  reputation  of  being  reliable  and 
painstaking  patent  attorneys  and  have  the  endorse- 
ment of  some  of  the  best  people  in  the  country. 
Yours  truly, 


M.  C.,  2d  Kansas  District. 


Endorsement    of    Representative    Taggart 


VICTOR       J.      EVANS      &      CO. 


matic  tire.  It  can  be  easily  imagined  what  Dun- 
lap's  profits  would  have  been  had  he  been  able  to 
collect  royalties  on  pneumatic  tires  for  automo- 
biles alone. 

The  automatic  piano  player  is  one  of  the  most 
profitable  of  recent  inventions.  The  value  of 
pianos  and  piano  players  sold  in  this  country  last 
year  was  over  $50,000,000.  There  was  an  in- 
crease in  automatic  piano  players  of  268  per  cent 
in  five  years.  All  of  these  automatic  piano  play- 
ers are  protected  by  patents. 


Traceable  to  Nature 

'ANY  of  the  most  important  of  modern 
mechanical  inventions  represent  discov- 
eries which  Dame  Nature  made  long  be- 
fore the  first  human  being  began  to  do 
any  real  thinking.  The  electric  eel,  for  example, 
is  a  complete  storage  battery,  carrying  an  ar- 
rangement of  Leyden  jars.  It  can  administer  a 
shock  powerful  enough  to  knock  a  man  down. 

Certain  trees  in  the  tropics  weave  their  inner 
bark  into  an  excellent  cloth,  the  most  perfect  type 
of  which,  considered  as  a  textile  fabric,  is  the 
celebrated  "tapa,"  so  extensively  worn  for  cloth- 
ing in  Polynesia.  The  eye,  moreover,  is  nothing 
more  nor  less  than  a  photographic  camera,  the 
nerve-screen  that  lines  it  taking  the  place  of  the 
sensitive  dry-plate.  The  impressions  being  nerv- 
ous, and  not  chemical,  they  are  fleeting. 


Our  clients  have  valuable  patents  for  sale 

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The  heart  is  the  most  admirable  pump  ever 
known,  the  work  it  does  in  the  ordinary  lifetime 
of  a  man  being  little  short  of  astonishing.  Some 
of  the  pumps  now  in  common  use  in  connection 
with  machinery  are  modeled  very  closely  after 
the  human  heart,  with  a  similar  arrangement  of 
valves. 

Up  to  the  present  time  human  ingenuity  has 
not  succeeded  in  constructing  an  apparatus  which 
will  do  the  work  accomplished  by  the  lungs  in 
the  separation  of  oxygen  from  atmospheric  air. 
If  a  satisfactory  imitation  could  be  produced  the 
invention  would  be  of  enormous  value.  The  de- 
vice of  the  ball-and-socket  joint  was  utilized  by 
Nature  in  the  shoulder  and  hip  joints  of  human 
beings  and  other  animals  long  before  it  occurred 
to  the  modern  inventor  to  employ  the  idea,  which, 
if  the  truth  were  known,  was  probably  suggested 
by  observations  of  the  skeleton. 

It  has  been  said  that  "hawks"  taught  men  to 
catch  fish,  spiders  and  caterpillars  showed  them 
how  to  spin  and  weave,  hornets  instructed  them 
in  the  art  of  making  paper,  and  crayfish  supplied 
the  first  hints  in  the  working  of  clay." 


A  man  who  offers  his  services  at  specially  low 
rates  generally  puts  them  at  their  true  value. 

Patents  for  small  articles  usually  pay  better 
than  those  for  great  schemes. 

Nearly  all  first-class  firms  have  become  emi- 
nent by  taking  pains  to  satisfy  their  clients. 


All  preliminary  searches  and  official  examinations  are   made 

here  in  the  city   of  Washington  where  your 

attorney  should   be  located 

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SECURITY 


*P  The  relation  between  the  inventor  and  *P 
his  attorney  is  strictly  a  confidential  one. 
The  highest  good  faith  is  necessary  and 
required.  The  attorney  owes  his  client 
the  duty  to  put  forth  his  best  efforts  in  his 
behalf.  Inventors  need  have  no  hesita- 
tion about  entrusting  their  cases  to  a 
good  and  reliable  patent  attorney  who 
prizes  his  own  reputation.  This  alone 
guarantees  protection.  All  business  com- 
munications and  data  relating  to  inventions 
intrusted  to  us  are  regarded  as  strictly 
confidential  and  are  preserved  in  absolute 
secrecy.  We  treat  our  clients  as  we  would 
wish  to  be  treated  were  we  in  their  place, 
and  fully  appreciate  the  high  responsi- 
bility we  assume  when  we  undertake  to 
secure  patents  of  commercial  value.  All 
who  desire  to  consult  us  in  regard  to  ob- 
taining patents  are  cordially  invited  to  do 
so.  You  do  not  assume  any  responsibility 
to  proceed  with  an  application  for  patent 
if  you  send  us  a  model  or  sketch  of  your 
invention.  In  all  cases  a  careful  consid- 
eration of  your  plans,  an  honest  opinion 

H>      and   a    prompt  reply   may    be  expected.      d» 

VICTOR     J.     EVANS      &      CO 


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IN  THE  UNITED  STATES 

C]f  The  minimum  cost  of  a  patent  for  an  invention 
through  our  firm  is  $65,  which  may  be  forwarded 
in  three  payments,  as  foliows: 

Fir-si  This  covers  the  cos!  of  preparing  the  application 

papers,  and  should  be  sent  as  soon  as  possible  after 
a  favorable  report  is  rendered  by  us.  The  papers 
are  prepared  immediately  upon  receipt  of  this  amount,  ard  are 
sent  to  the  inventor  for  signing. 

Second  This  covers  the  first  Government  fee,  $15;  the 
SS'O^OO*  remain^er  °f  tk®  attorneys'  fee,  $10,  and  $5,  the 
fee  for  a  sheet  of  official  drawings.  This  amount 
should  be  remitted  when  the  papers  are  returned,  which  may 
be  at  the  convenience  of  the  inventor,  though  it  is,  of  course, 
advisable  to  place  them  in  the  Patent  Office  as  early  as  possible, 
to  gain  priority  of  filing  over  those  who  may  be  working  along 
the  same  lines. 

Third  This  covers  the  final  Government  fee  to  issue  the 
j&'f)1/)/)*  Patent>  1*  mav  ke  sent  at  any  time  within  six 
months  after  notice  of  allowance  is  received.  This 
notice  generally  comes  to  hand  three  to  eight  months  after  the 
papers  are  placed  in  the  Patent  Office. 
Cosi  io  The  cost  to  maKe  application  for  a 
Apply  rj  5  Patent  for  a  simple  invention  is  thus  but  $45, 
which  may  be  made  in  two  payments,  the  first  of  which  is  but 
$15.  If  delays  are  to  be  avoided,  the  first  payment  of  $1  5 
should  be  sent  with  the  sketch,  when,  if  the  invention  is  new, 
the  papers  will  be  immediately  prepared  and  forwarded.  If 
the  idea  proves  to  be  old,  however,  the  amount  due  will  be 
returned. 

We  Make  No  Charge  For  Opinion  As  To  Patentability 


MONEY 


IN 


VICTOR,  d.  EVANS  8t  CO. 

•    PATENT  ATTORNEYS   • 
VICTOR  BUILDING WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 


